Showing posts with label Andrew North. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Paperback 368: Voodoo Planet & Plague Ship / Andrew North (Ace D-345)

Paperback 367: Ace Double D-345 (PBO & 1st ptg, 1959)

Title: Voodoo Planet / Plague Ship
Author: Andrew North / Andrew North
Cover artist: Ed Emshwiller / Uncredited [Ed Valigursky]

Yours for: $13

AceD345.Voodoo

Best things about this cover:
  • In the future, cell phone earpieces will be silly, cumbersome contraptions that double as coffee makers.
  • "Golly, these black vikings are a lot less primitive than I thought!"
  • Love the squiggle-edged script on the title. You can really feel the voodoo.

AceD345.PlagueShip

Best things about this other cover:

  • "The Galaxy" ordered their destruction!? Wait ... "their?" Him and the bird?!?!
  • Bird: "Run, Steve, Run! They'll never understand our love!"
  • That is the longest, slimmest, most slowly tapering rocket I've ever seen.

Page 123~

And yet the hunting Hoobat was sure that the invading pests were within.

This book clearly had merchandising potential. I want a hunting Hoobat action figure to put between Batwoman and Samurai Jack on my bookshelf.

~RP

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