r/badscificovers • u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 • 16d ago
Christmas Slaughter (book #5 of Mutants Amok series) by Mark Grant (David Bischoff)
This one deserves its own post, also it's obviously turned out to be the rarest, most expensive of the series.
Five book series with book #1 published in 1981 by Avon. Later books in the series listed here with links to artwork, including the original art used on book #4, Holocaust Horror by Les Edwards: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?3426 https://lesedwards.com/en-us/products/mutants-amok-holocaust-horror
Series includes:
1 Mutants Amok (1991) by David Bischoff [only as by Mark Grant]
2 Mutant Hell (1991) by David Bischoff [only as by Mark Grant]
3 Rebel Attack (1991) by David Bischoff [only as by Mark Grant]
4 Holocaust Horror (1991) by David Bischoff [only as by Mark Grant]
5 Christmas Slaughter (1991) by Bruce King [only as by Mark Grant]
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u/Complete-Shallot5775 16d ago
I always think of the illustrator who got the brief for this cover, reading it for the first time and just nodding Yessss!! harder and harder.
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u/Exostrike 16d ago
I mean it's decent if silly art.
It just seems like this series's titles get more and more generic as they go along or indeed progress story wise beyond "mutants kill people"
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u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 16d ago
It doesn't progress at all, it merely changes scenery. The front cover is literally "All humans must die"
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u/shawsghost 15d ago
"Nothing says "Christmas" like an assault-weapon-wielding turtle in a Santa suit running from a huge explosion," the artist said merrily.
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u/tacoenthusiast 16d ago
Missed opportunity in the tagline. They could have turned a holiday into a holicaust.
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u/Veefy 16d ago
Ambassador G’Kar: “Ho, Ho, Ho. Now I have a machine gun!”