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Tomes of Heroic Deeds

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Artist: Jeff Easley

GAMMA WORLD 2nd Edition box set cover. 1983.

This is vintage Gamma World. Among the brilliant touches:

• the humanoid on the left had a block of steak knives as a sheath; one is missing

• the rear portion of his breastplate looks like the hood or trunk of a 1960s-era VW or similar car

• despite the scavenged armor and knives, he has a wrist-mounted “power fist” energy weapon

• the pure-strain (?) on the right has license plate arm armor

• his torso armor is the hide of some mutated beast that had both fur and alligator-like scales

• his melee weapon appears to be the head of a shovel lashed to a baseball bat

• his back-up weapon is a household claw hammer

• they’re going up against a massive death-bot