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Post by bushwick on Jul 23, 2009 18:16:50 GMT
I've got two copies of this - one has just 'Snowdrop' written on the spine, sans-"Satan's", but the rest of the cover's just the same.
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Post by allthingshorror on Aug 16, 2009 14:57:06 GMT
Star (1976)I must have giggled for about half an hour when I came across this in a box of books up the loft this morning, can't even remember buying it - but how the hell could you forget a cover like this?
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Post by allthingshorror on Oct 10, 2009 12:31:56 GMT
Little bit of wire wool, some turps in a syringe and half an hour later...
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Post by weirdmonger on Oct 11, 2009 8:22:52 GMT
A book: A small press mag;
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Post by andydecker on Oct 11, 2009 12:11:11 GMT
Some horror weekly´s from my youth. Dämonenkiller 62 from 1975, "The Ship of lost Souls", cover by Thole (edited 4/2020) Vampir Horror 20 from 1973, "Countess of Blood - She bought herself eternal youth - with the blood of young girls", cover by Thole. Still am toying with the idea to make this one into a poster Vampir Horror 36 from 1973, "Hand of the Strangler - He was forced to kill - with his cut-off hand", cover by Thole All of the above were also used for italian horror comics. And all were sold at newsstands.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 15, 2009 12:04:19 GMT
Some horror weekly´s from my youth. Dämonenkiller 62 from 1975, "The Ship of lost Souls", cover by Kirby sorry, andy! i think you can pass the credit back to Thole. this incredibly striking image appears on the cover of Frederick Marryat's The Phantom Ship (Four Square, May 1966) so silly bollocks here automatically nails it as the work of Josh Kirby. However, a belated of Ansible's ever so useful Josh List and they credit Mr. Kirby with just about every Four Square Gothic bar this one!
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Post by andydecker on Oct 15, 2009 18:34:26 GMT
No problem, dem. This was an educated guess, as the artist wasn´t credited in the issue. Unfortunatly there never was a bibliography of Thole´s work, so there is a lot of guesswork involved. A shame. In a few years his work will be forgotten, like a lot of other artists of the popculture.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 1, 2009 10:44:58 GMT
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan's Quest (Mark Goulden, London, no date) Not in the best condition, but it would have been so much worse ten minutes later when the rain came pelting down .... I've no idea of date or artist - looks kind of 'twenties Weird Tales-ish to me - there's just a note inside and on back cover to the effect that Goulden had reissued six Burroughs adventures to date and W. H. Allen were the sole distributors.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 1, 2009 13:54:48 GMT
J. Allen St. John, Dem, probably considered the best Burroughs illustrator for good reason even though many magnificent names have dabbled with the body of Edgar Rice Burroughs' work.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Feb 11, 2010 22:23:07 GMT
No earthly reason to buy this - apart from that cover! 1978 - Magnum Edition 1979 'Confident, tingling,bizarre...plus subtle finale' cheered The Grauniad. This was the first of ex-copper James Barnett's four novels, and, whilst nowhere near as good as the cover promises, it's an intriguing tale of Right-wing organisations on the up, Lefties trying to smash 'em, homosexual ex-soldiers, and the police force. Best of all, the scene on the front of the book actually does happen!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Feb 11, 2010 23:33:42 GMT
Either the murdered man was the victim of some head-shrinking cult, or there's a fucking big copper looking for his helmet.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 16, 2010 20:58:38 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2010 22:00:51 GMT
Way back at the start of this thread you'll find a couple of Panther editions of The Newgate Calendar and the book seems to have brought out the best in their artists. I particularly like the shifty crew leering at the buxom serving wench. George Theodore Wilkinson (ed.) - The Newgate Calendar (Panther, 1963) Blurb Murderers, ravishers, traitors and rogues of every description. The great chronicles of crime and the bloodiest deeds in criminal history.
Through the pages of this remarkable work we follow the careers of the great criminals of Britain's most licentious era. We walk beside them through the vice dens of the eighteenth century's underworld, wait with them in the ditches of the country roads to pounce on unsuspecting travellers, and stand before them as they breathe their last on the scaffolds of Tyburn and Execution Dock. Here are the stories of the infamous whose names have lived down the years: Jonathan Wild, Captain Kidd, Dick Turpin, Sawney Beane, Jack Ketch, John Sheppard, and a host of other murderers, pirates, cut-throats and traitors presented in a vivid, fascinating volume. But be warned it is not for the squeamish.
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Post by doug on Apr 27, 2010 5:00:17 GMT
I had this one as a kid much to my parents displeasure!
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Post by doug on Apr 27, 2010 5:06:11 GMT
found this one as a kid at a garage sale.
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