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I’m not gonna do an OP because I’m making GBS threads rn and too tired to figure out 2023 image hosting but anything from 40s pulp to 80s horror is fine by me, I just wanna see the cool and funny pics
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 this has gotta be a pen name, right?
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Apr 1, 2023 16:20
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they could also just actually be a cat
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Apr 1, 2023 16:24
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:
hahahah YES!!!! I love the blurb from the author of The Female Man (???)
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Apr 1, 2023 16:31
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There's an excellent thread in the goldmine but this is the best one: Sima Sam posted:ROBOT Clint Eastwood with amazing hair.
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Apr 1, 2023 16:32
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surely bookheads already know about this but a great source for these covers in the horror genre between, say, 1967 and 1994 is Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson’s Paperbacks from Hell. there are these awesome full-color larger-than-life reproductions on a lot of the interior pages, often with sidebars about the artists. recommended if you like skeletons, screaming ladies in diaphanous nightclothes, big rear end animals of any kind (crabs even—Guy N. Smith wrote like a trilogy of insane crab novels)
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Apr 1, 2023 16:34
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EorayMel posted:There's an excellent thread in the goldmine but this is the best one: not to be crass but he looks like he just finished a session of eating automaton pussy and he’s pretty proud of himself. wild
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Apr 1, 2023 16:36
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 This and really any Lloyd Alexander books.
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Apr 1, 2023 17:12
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a hardcover and not fiction, but still one of my favourite cover + back combos: 
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Apr 1, 2023 17:22
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Not really insane but I would always get a sensible chuckle whenever a book with a dreamy Dean Koontz on the back would get returned 
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Apr 1, 2023 18:11
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Paperbacks From Hell is great for this, might as well showcase the classic of that.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:41
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when i was in elementary school i was really into the hardy boys and nancy drew and my parents had a ton of the old hardcovers, i remember always seeing a couple of 'newer' hardy boys books at the school library and this is one of the ones ive never been able to get out of my head
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Apr 1, 2023 18:43
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I loved the Hardy Boys Casefiles strictly because they tried to make them superspies/action heroes in training so it wasn't uncommon for them to be engaging in gunplay and the like. Here's a weirder cover that doesn't look right at all.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:47
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i was really young at the time and the first one i picked up was one where joe's girlfriend dies in a car bomb and i cried 
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Apr 1, 2023 18:59
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haha what posted:i was really young at the time and the first one i picked up was one where joe's girlfriend dies in a car bomb and i cried I remember the ending being especially brutal as well involving a great fall due to an inordinate amount of blood. Still, if you were the right age for it, it was a lot of fun seeing the Hardy Boys go from teenage detectives to fighting international terrorism and shooting guns and traveling around in a van full of 'crimefighting equipment.' The '80s were truly a different time.
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EorayMel posted:There's an excellent thread in the goldmine but this is the best one: PKD covers are kind of cheating here imo  
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:I loved the Hardy Boys Casefiles strictly because they tried to make them superspies/action heroes in training so it wasn't uncommon for them to be engaging in gunplay and the like. Yeah, it was an interesting direction but the tone felt kind of off.
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thank u for posting the best Crabs cover
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Is it the most insane book cover, no. Is it insane enough? I think so.
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Jossar posted:Is it the most insane book cover, no. Is it insane enough? I think so. I freaking love that series in an 80's sci-fi sort of way. My boyfriend in highschool loaned it to me, and now they're one the only physical books I own (I went digital a while back and donated everything else). They're all amazing and king of schlocky, and I think my favorite cover for the weird factor is for The Warlock Rock, but basically all of them in the series are that flavor of weird. 
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Apr 2, 2023 03:40
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Mostly the fact that multiple people for years had to have looked at these and thought yes, this should be in elementary school libraries and book fairs.
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Apr 2, 2023 04:40
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 Free to read at archive dot org: https://archive.org/details/deathoffuhrer00rola_0  
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x-posting from goosebumps threadhaha what posted:holy poo poo i was looking them up to double check and the covers from the ones released in france OWN. i never knew about this, some of these are insanely good lmao
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hell yes.
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Xenoborg posted:Mostly the fact that multiple people for years had to have looked at these and thought yes, this should be in elementary school libraries and book fairs. They're right.
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Apr 2, 2023 06:44
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The Spanish edition of Monday Starts on Saturday that looks like an oingo boingo album  Polish 1984 with Cat Stalin 
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Apr 2, 2023 09:19
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Ahaha this one is great.
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The Dark Tower
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super sweet best pal posted:Yeah, it was an interesting direction but the tone felt kind of off. Yeah, and the ages of the detectives that were being recruited into 'The Network' (love the vague names) felt off too. Why did Frank and Joe know everything to know about machine guns circa 1990 when they were nearly 18? They were sons of a famous detective, not the siblings from Night of the Comet. Anyway, I looked more into Guy N. Smith covers hoping to find more comical Crab series goodness. Instead, I found this.
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Xenoborg posted:Mostly the fact that multiple people for years had to have looked at these and thought yes, this should be in elementary school libraries and book fairs. this was a hardcover but easily the best cover  those books had some of the most insane illustrations ever and i love it
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:I loved the Hardy Boys Casefiles strictly because they tried to make them superspies/action heroes in training so it wasn't uncommon for them to be engaging in gunplay and the like. "My agent JUST got around to telling me that the Hardy Boys can't hold GUNS on the cover of this book...but I've already started the painting and they're both in James Bond tactical crouches! I'm not throwing away hours of work, I can fix this..."
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JethroMcB posted:"My agent JUST got around to telling me that the Hardy Boys can't hold GUNS on the cover of this book...but I've already started the painting and they're both in James Bond tactical crouches! I'm not throwing away hours of work, I can fix this..." lol
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barnold posted:this was a hardcover but easily the best cover They put out an edition with new, not hosed up, illustrations but after so many people complained the next went back to the old style.
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Pretty sure the life path that led me to this website started with that book.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Not really insane but I would always get a sensible chuckle whenever a book with a dreamy Dean Koontz on the back would get returned I enjoyed this author pic a lot because it's so incredibly french 
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