This is a text supplement to a video that can be found here.
“Playboy and the Slime God” is a really funny story and most of the stories in The Wizards of Odd are really funny, but I was serious about it being a bit of a pain to get my hands on. I don’t recall how I first heard of it, but when I went out looking for it at the time; none of the bookstores anywhere around had it. I did, in fact, send to England to get my copy.
The odd thing is, when I was looking things up, the edition I have has the cover which, if what I read is to be correct, was the cover for the US printing, not the original UK printing, despite the fact that it reads “First Time in Print!” on the front.
Furthermore, I really don’t believe that my copy is from the US: not only because I had to get it in England, but they use English grammatical rules and conventions, not American ones. The most obvious being the single quotation marks on all speech in the book. This could just be a matter of lazy American editors not looking over what they had when they re-printed it, which may also explain the “First Time in Print” boast on the cover, but that seems a bit odd.
You know, I bet as soon as people start watching this video, I’m going to be inundated with comments calling me an idiot because it’s actually the easiest book in the world to find and I was somehow just looking on the wrong damn shelf.
Either way, the book is worth the hassle to find.
Want to hear a random fun fact? Colleen Camp plays Yvette the Maid in the 1985 movie Clue which I use clips from in the video. At one point in time, Colleen Camp did a Playboy spread, the focus of this video, and her first film role, at least according to IMDb, is an uncredited part in Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the final movie in the Planet of the Apes series and sequel to the subject of my first review. See, I told you it was random.