Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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I always thought that the Monkees, beyond parodying the Beatles, also spoofed beatniks and hippies!
----and they were a good rock group.
Hey, I found a transition cover too! This is actually a spoof cover, but nevertheless The Beatles were definitely hippies in the late 60s.
Hanna-Barbera wanted to do an animated version of Dobie Gillis, but couldn't get the rights despite all their pitch work. So they replaced the title character with a new breakout star while retooling the rest of their work and the rest is history as Norville "Shaggy" Rogers stands in for Maynard G. Krebbs in this split/beatnik transition cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
I checked out the entire run of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Except for his use of the word "like" and his tiny beard, there was nothing about Maynard to fit September. On the TV show there was.
"My pal, Jimmy, is a freakin' hippie!"
Four Color #1182. Entire issue drawn and scripted by Jack Davis. I'm not sure if I bought it, but I came to appreciate Jack Davis later.
This "33" has got spaceships, a giant robot, an exploding atomic bomb, and the “Black Canary” standing in a dinosaur’s mouth swinging a shark by the tail at a gorilla in a space suit.
C’mon! How could you not buy it?
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