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Post by Zhu Bajie on Mar 17, 2020 19:37:30 GMT
I know that somebody was selling the cover art for Titan as a poster back in the '90s, without any associated FF branding. I remember being rather surprised seeing it hanging in a friend's bedroom. Not sure if that counts as repurposing. Never really thought about it before, but this must be a wonderful time-saver for artists commissioned to do another piece of art for a kids' book or whatever. Get one of your old pieces, make a few vague alterations, then flog it off like new and make a few extra quid. In the pre-internet era, who'd ever notice? Art is often only licensed to a publisher for use in a single publication, the artist owns the copyright and can seek secondary or even tertiary licensees for the same work. This is why Chris Achilleos work appears all over the place.  The Titan cover is a painting called Dragonspell and Chris still sells posters of it: chrisachilleos.ecwid.com/#!/Dragonspell/p/8220955/category=1056147 Click A1 W&G poster, it's £10! |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 13, 2020 14:58:36 GMT
Found these on the Titannica section of FF Brazil. Seem familiar?   |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 13, 2020 15:00:39 GMT
And these.... An example of some repurposed art from a rival Gamebook series - Lone Wolf Darke Crusade switches sides and becomes Trolltooth Wars. .   |
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Post by Wilf on Jul 13, 2020 19:47:31 GMT
I'm waiting to see the first re-use of FF art from the Scholastic era!!
...might be here a long time...
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 14, 2020 16:54:37 GMT
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Dec 30, 2020 18:54:40 GMT
Found another couple. Again not FF, though. The cover of the Dragonlance board game. And the cover of the Bulgarian version of Flight from the Dark. [over on Project Aon someone has gone to the trouble of uploading all the LW covers]   and also again:  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Dec 30, 2020 18:57:28 GMT
Same source. Talisman board game and LW 27:   There are bound to be other examples in there but i can't place them. |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Dec 30, 2020 19:26:30 GMT
Chris Achilleos again. Left is another Lone Wolf cover, right is from the Michael Moorcock book 'The War Hound and the World's Pain'   |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Mar 13, 2021 17:44:50 GMT
From the late Martin McKenna's blog. Eye of the Dragon cover used for a book called Midgard.  |
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Post by schlendrian on Mar 13, 2021 18:32:46 GMT
Wow, if that doesn't take me back to my teens! I've read Hohlbein's Midgard (with a different cover back then) at least thrice in school, wrote a book report on it and borrowed it to all my friends to read too.
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Post by The Count on Mar 13, 2021 23:37:39 GMT
From the late Martin McKenna's blog. Eye of the Dragon cover used for a book called Midgard. View AttachmentThat beautiful picture deserved a much better book that EotD |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 11, 2021 12:56:23 GMT
Hungarian Crown of Kings   And the game Blood Royale from Games Workshop :strip_icc()/pic267087.jpg) |
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Post by kieran on Jul 11, 2021 17:52:23 GMT
Hungarian Crown of Kings And the game Blood Royale from Games Workshop Cool pic though no idea what it has to do with Crown of Kings! |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 11, 2021 23:00:31 GMT
It is a good picture, and another one by Chris Achilleos.
But it just goes to show the mentality of these publishers.
"The book's called 'Crown of Kings' eh? ... Right then, we need a man in a posh and expensive suit of armour worthy of a king, with a crown on his head."
I'd put money on whoever chose that cover did not read a single sentence of the book.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 15, 2021 5:49:10 GMT
This one (the Czech cover of Citadel of Chaos) looks repurposed but I don't know where from. Anyone have an idea?  |
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Post by kieran on Jul 15, 2021 10:55:35 GMT
This one (the Czech cover of Citadel of Chaos) looks repurposed but I don't know where from. Anyone have an idea? Seems like your instincts were right:  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 15, 2021 18:05:23 GMT
I KNEW someone on here would know the answer.  |
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Post by kieran on Jul 15, 2021 18:25:21 GMT
I KNEW someone on here would know the answer. Didn't have a clue, but Google Image Search did! |
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Post by philsadler on Aug 6, 2021 21:02:51 GMT
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 7, 2021 8:54:00 GMT
Freeway Fighter used again. This time for the cover of a computer game on the Amiga called Nitro. Saw this in a shop yesterday.  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 7, 2021 20:26:04 GMT
[Warlock magazine] and... was originally the cover of Chaos for the ZX Spectrum by Games Workshop   |
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Post by petch on Aug 7, 2021 21:07:38 GMT
I used to have Chaos for my old Spectrum. Except mine was on one of those cassettes with about a dozen games on that used to be sellotaped to the front of Sinclair User magazine as a free gift (most of which were very low quality, but Chaos was actually good). So instead of having that lovely cover art my copy just had 'Megaaaaaaaaaatape' written over the front of it. I think it thought it needed all those extra a's just to establish how mega it was.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 7, 2021 21:24:30 GMT
German covers for the most part look repurposed from something else.   Look at Temple of Terror! |
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Post by kieran on Aug 7, 2021 21:59:40 GMT
Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a cropped version of Josh Kirby's cover for Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites - you can even see Granny Weatherwax's hand on the left.
Island of the Lizard King borrows from the cover of Grail Quest 5.
Some of the others look familiar but I can't place them.
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Post by a moderator on Aug 8, 2021 12:23:34 GMT
The German cover to Demons of the Deep is a detail from the cover of the 1980s edition of August Derleth's The Mask of Cthulhu.
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Post by The Count on Aug 8, 2021 20:37:58 GMT
Just to show how bad it is, the real cover of Caverns doesn't look out of place amidst those inappropriately reused images
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 14, 2021 16:39:09 GMT
I can see what the top four are, but bottom row - what is going on there? Are those all meant to be covers for FF books or Golden Dragon too - so what;s going on with Back to the Future? The writing in the zig-zags at the top is the same... I don't know what it's saying -just something generic like 'solo adventure gamebook'?  |
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Post by schlendrian on Sept 30, 2021 13:41:54 GMT
Interesting everyone, getting the "inspiration" for these covers, wasn't aware. For German fantasy book publishers (don't know whether this is the normal somewhere else, but probably so), it's quite usual to have a stockpile of possible covers and if you publish a book, you just assign one that seems to fit best rather than buying one that really fits. I even know of a couple of books (not FF related) where authors were asked: "We got the rights to this cover, write a fitting story to accompany it."
These are however a re-release. The covers of the original Thienemann release were either original (usually featuring a giant die thrown into the countryside) or the Puffin covers.
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Post by schlendrian on Oct 1, 2021 13:59:35 GMT
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Post by kieran on Oct 1, 2021 15:17:41 GMT
Love the way he's been given a sword to try and fit the title a bit better. Even though he is clearly not a samurai!
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