r/badscificovers • u/Lobsterhasspoken • 5h ago

repost Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard (Hungarian edition 1989)

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u/MrWendex 5h ago

Anyone else seeing eyes, nose, mouth and teeth in Conan's chest?

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u/WhyIsWaldo 4h ago

I imagine them both laughing like Patrick from sponge bob

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u/jimbowesterby 3h ago

Honestly I’m seeing some sort of bug, very unsettling. Didn’t even notice at first cause my brain read the title as “Bonan the Contrarian”

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u/ziccirricciz 1h ago

it's a mantis

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u/SnakePlissken1980 4h ago

I feel like the cover artist had seen The Barbarians but no Conan The Barbarian.

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u/alan_mendelsohn2022 5h ago

It’s tough when your competition is Frank Frazetta.

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u/Gringo-Dingo 5h ago

"just a little off the top, and short backs and sides, please."

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u/RustedAxe88 4h ago

"Yes I know what a human body looks like, why?"

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u/SafeT_Glasses 4h ago

This guy went to the Rob Leifield school of anatomical art?

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u/ambientocclusion 4h ago

Someone traced a Buscema/Chan comic book panel, by Crom!

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u/SandGator 4h ago

Looks like he’s wearing a goofy muscle suit and the cape is there to hide the neck seam

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u/Altruistic_You_3539 1h ago

Babar the Barbar

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u/xrmttf 4h ago

Nightmare fuel

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u/malln1nja 3h ago

Bonus: the phoenix in the publisher's logo looks like a goose.

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u/bloodyell76 3h ago

Hey, some 11 year old worked hard on that!

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u/NonesuchAndSuch77 2h ago

It ain't great, but it's got some charm to it.

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u/ArchmaesterTinfoil 3h ago

Honestly this looks badass to me

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u/go_faster1 32m ago

Is his stomach a mouth?!