Favorite Covers - Frazetta's Lampoons!

This is a very sexy 1973 Frazetta cover for National Lampoon. What's not to like about the Goblin Queen. 

Here is the Ghoul Queen minus cover copy in all its lurid glory. I love how the attending demons are howling and grimacing and staring at their voluptuous leader. 

The art was repurposed by Pacific Comics in the late 70's on one of its catalogs and according to reports, the delectable queen of demons helped spike sales significantly. Few can resist getting their mitts on some juicy Frazettas.

Here is a simply outstanding cover from a 1971 issue of National Lampoon by Frazetta. The titillating sexism, the brutal violence, and the boneheaded racism often associated with the pulps is fully on display in this in-your-face magazine cover.

And here is the original, with even more vivid sex on display. Aside from putting some fragments of clothing on the girl for the cover they also added a pith helmet to the man to (I guess) sell the notion of "great white hunter" more quickly. It worked.

Here's a 1972 cover by Frazetta, a very dramatic and eye-catching image. A cover like this might stir up quite a controversy. I am unaware of any specific irritation with this cover. 

Perhaps if this somewhat lighter image had been seen, there might have been some dustup or other. This image is unusually emotional given its satirical intent. The suffering is all too realistic.

This is a fantastic original from Frazetta for a 1971 Dracula spoof inside an issue of Lampoon I found here.

It serves as the bogus cover for a full spoof drawn by Neal Adams. You can check out the full story titled "Putting the Bite on the Big Apple!" here.  I really like those apples. 

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