Title: Swapping Society
Author: Jack Woods
Cover artist: Uncredited. Feels like somebody famous, but I can't remember his name... [possibly Bill Ward or Gene Bilbrew or Eric Stanton]
Yours for: Not for Sale [part of the Doug Peterson Collection]
Best things about this cover:
- Glenda will not have her magnificent buttcheeks upstaged by some young hippie's perky rack. Back to the dorms with you and your left boob, Missy.
- How is this vampire different from all other vampires? Well, Missy, she's about to show you.
- Not sure how this cover can be so sexed-up and yet feel so dull. It's like people dressed for an orgy but decided to reenact a routine medical exam instead.
- Behold this imprint! I'd never even heard of Corsair until Doug handed me this book last weekend. Skull & crossbones = righteous.
Best things about this back cover:
- A lesbian dominatrix who's into BDSM? That's what's called hitting the alt.sex jackpot, paperbackwise.
- Ha ha, "You." Gotta love second-person cover copy. It's like a Choose Your Own Adventure (which ... would be ... the greatest thing ever ...).
- "Plunge Into the Aberrant Happenings" should be some state's motto. Nebraska? I'm looking at you...
- And the winner of all typos is .... [drum roll] ... UNCERTAINTLY! Pick up your check at the door, buddy. You earned it!
Page 123~
"They let's go, darling," Linda whispered, smearing her wet lips over his cheek. "I need a real man to take care of me—as hot as I am right now. And I'm sure you can do the job with flying colors."
Sorry, Linda, you lost me at "smearing."
~RP
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6 comments:
This cover artist's style kinda resembles Bill Ward's, he of the buxom ladies who graced the pages of Cracked, Humorama, and much more.
http://www.womenofward.net/
On second thought, it's almost certainly Bill Ward, esp. the brunette. I'd wager on it.
Just perused his art, and think you might be right. I'll put a tentative attribution in the write-up. Thx.
I know what you mean about the lack of sexiness in the cover. It should work, but it doesn't. Might be the style, or the fact that Veronica's head is a little too big.
I totally missed "uncertaintly", because my brain latched onto "manson". Given the publication date and the hints of strange goings-on, that's somewhat apt, too.
Actually, I think this cover's by Eric Stanton. Similar style to Ward & Bilbrew, but I can tell a Stanton ass a mile away...
Stanton! Man, it's weird how there's a def. mid-late '60s style that many different artists are tapping into. Explicit, comical, comic-book inspired ...
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