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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7729100" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>That cover is the Panther paperback version of <em>The Valley of the Worm</em> (aka Skull-Face Omnibus Volume 2) which was published in July 1976.</p><p></p><p> <em>Dragon #2</em> was published in August 1976. A month doesn't seem long enough for Otus to do the picture, have Gygax pin it up, have Kuntz stat up a monster and then have it published in a magazine.</p><p></p><p>The book cover also has little resemblance to Otus's Remorhaz picture. It's pretty much a generic giant arthropod with a pair of antennae and horizontal mandibles. Otus's original Remorhaz picture has horns, purple spots, vestigial wings and fangs in a vertically-hinged jaw.</p><p></p><p>Also, I agree about it not matching the description in Howard's writing:</p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Source: <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_the_Worm" target="_blank"><em>The Valley of the Worm</em></a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">I can only say that it looked somewhat more like a worm than it did an octopus, a serpent or a dinosaur.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">It was white and pulpy, and drew its quaking bulk along the ground, worm-fashion. But it had wide flat tentacles, and fleshy feelers, and other adjuncts the use of which I am unable to explain. And it had a long proboscis which it curled and uncurled like an elephant's trunk. Its forty eyes, set in a horrific circle, were composed of thousands of facets of as many scintillant colours which changed and altered in never-ending transmutation. But through all interplay of hue and glint, they retained their evil intelligence intelligence there was behind those flickering facets, not human nor yet bestial, but a night-born demoniac intelligence such as men in dreams vaguely sense throbbing titanically in the black gulfs outside our material universe. In size the monster was mountainous; its bulk would have dwarfed a mastodon.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">*SNIP*</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The spongy skin yielded and gave beneath my feet, and I drove my sword hilt deep, dragging it through the pulpy flesh, ripping a horrible yard-long wound, from which oozed a green slime. Then a flip of a cable-like-tentacle flicked me from the titan's back and spun me 300 feet through the air to crash among a cluster of giant trees.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The impact must have splintered half the bones in my frame, for when I sought to grasp my sword again and crawl anew to the combat, I could not move hand or foot, could only writhe helplessly with my broken back. But I could see the monster and I knew that I had won, even in defeat. The mountainous bulk was heaving and billowing, the tentacles were lashing madly, the antennae writhing and knotting, and the nauseous whiteness had changed to a pale and grisly green. It turned ponderously and lurched back towards the temple, rolling like a crippled ship in a heavy swell. Trees crashed and splintered as it lumbered against them.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7729100, member: 57383"] That cover is the Panther paperback version of [I]The Valley of the Worm[/I] (aka Skull-Face Omnibus Volume 2) which was published in July 1976. [I]Dragon #2[/I] was published in August 1976. A month doesn't seem long enough for Otus to do the picture, have Gygax pin it up, have Kuntz stat up a monster and then have it published in a magazine. The book cover also has little resemblance to Otus's Remorhaz picture. It's pretty much a generic giant arthropod with a pair of antennae and horizontal mandibles. Otus's original Remorhaz picture has horns, purple spots, vestigial wings and fangs in a vertically-hinged jaw. Also, I agree about it not matching the description in Howard's writing: [INDENT]Source: [URL="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_the_Worm"][I]The Valley of the Worm[/I][/URL] I can only say that it looked somewhat more like a worm than it did an octopus, a serpent or a dinosaur. It was white and pulpy, and drew its quaking bulk along the ground, worm-fashion. But it had wide flat tentacles, and fleshy feelers, and other adjuncts the use of which I am unable to explain. And it had a long proboscis which it curled and uncurled like an elephant's trunk. Its forty eyes, set in a horrific circle, were composed of thousands of facets of as many scintillant colours which changed and altered in never-ending transmutation. But through all interplay of hue and glint, they retained their evil intelligence intelligence there was behind those flickering facets, not human nor yet bestial, but a night-born demoniac intelligence such as men in dreams vaguely sense throbbing titanically in the black gulfs outside our material universe. In size the monster was mountainous; its bulk would have dwarfed a mastodon. *SNIP* The spongy skin yielded and gave beneath my feet, and I drove my sword hilt deep, dragging it through the pulpy flesh, ripping a horrible yard-long wound, from which oozed a green slime. Then a flip of a cable-like-tentacle flicked me from the titan's back and spun me 300 feet through the air to crash among a cluster of giant trees. The impact must have splintered half the bones in my frame, for when I sought to grasp my sword again and crawl anew to the combat, I could not move hand or foot, could only writhe helplessly with my broken back. But I could see the monster and I knew that I had won, even in defeat. The mountainous bulk was heaving and billowing, the tentacles were lashing madly, the antennae writhing and knotting, and the nauseous whiteness had changed to a pale and grisly green. It turned ponderously and lurched back towards the temple, rolling like a crippled ship in a heavy swell. Trees crashed and splintered as it lumbered against them. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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