Cover by Gahan Wilson illustrating Harlan Ellison’s classic novelette, Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R. (1969)
Santa will straight up disintegrate a man, especially a mind-controlled Spiro Agnew (Partial preview text online)
And to all a good night.
Buck and Penny try to convince Professor Applewhite to put down the slide rule and run from the Attack of the Mutants. (Illustration from the one-page version of the board game sent free with orders and catalogs, Yaquinto Publications, 1981.) I got this micromini game when I ordered counter trays to organize my game parts, and found it this weekend just in time for some Halloween holiday mutant zombie gaming.
According to a comment by Brian Train on BoardGameGeek, this scene is:
By John Hagen-Brenner, one of the chief illustrators of the canonical works of the Church of the SubGenius.
Note the “Bob"like look of the guard and the pipe sticking out of his pocket.Mutants = zombies with no slack
Never played the game, but this is one of the indelible images of my childhood. I love that robot.
‘Tis the Season.
More abandoned panels. Comics are a ruthless enterprise.
Another panel to be erased.
Good thing this thing comes with instructions. #nancy