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Dean Ellis's mysterious Bander Snatch cover

Dean Ellis's mysterious Bander Snatch cover

Weirdly, 'Bander Snatch' is the guy, not the giant bear alien he's fighting

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Sep 11, 2021
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I’m hoping to get this amazing Dean Ellis art in my book. It’s the 1979 cover for Bander Snatch, by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.

Looks like a forest, right? Check again. If you look closely at this cover, you can see hints that this scene is set on the apocalyptic Earth of the novel: Street lamps are on either side, and the trees are really buildings complete wi…

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