Devolutionary

Disney can't have been happy about at least one of those guys in the background.

And DC probably not happy about Hawkman.

Harlan might have done better to leave this undiscovered... and isn't he the one who learned "Never fuck with the Mouse" the hard way?

I think DC has the better case: the mouse is probably sufficiently different to pass the copyright sniff test (not that Disney lawyers are that discriminating).

IIRC, pretty much everyone on the planet has for some reason assumed the identity of some fictional pop culture character, so it's one big copyright violation thinly covered by everyone having a generic name. The Fat Man rather than Villain Played by Sidney Greenstreet, the Lawyer rather than Theodore Marley "Ham" Brooks, the Duck rather than Donald, etc.

(The Demon seems an odd exception: I can't think of any fictional demons, offhand, that look like him.)

I'd say the cover does the job of accurately illustrating some of the characters, but it doesn't quite bring across the scale of the crazyness: when the blurb says "godlike humans", it isn't engaging in hyperbole.

The book had a sequel, described thusly by wikipedia:

An East Wind Coming (1979) — from the cover: ""An immortal Sherlock Holmes: a deathless Jack the Ripper! in a fantasy duel through the corridors of time."

Only worth tracking down if you really liked this one.

>3 bam2001: Those Spirit Halloween stores that pop up for a few months a year are always full of just-enough-different costumes that clearly want to be copyright violations. Pro tip: sometimes you can get good deals on Nov. 1.

I've just now noticed the green dude's nipples. Yikes.

>5 GSSex-noob: He's also not wearing any pants.