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.
Date | Page/Reply | Theme (and clickable link) | Pages | Replies | |||
Oct 2016 | 1/1 | Letter A | 19 | 228 | |||
Dec 2016 | 20/1 | Letter B | 17 | 207 | |||
Jan 2017 | 37/4 | Letter C | 18 | 214 | |||
Feb 2017 | 55/2 | Letter D | 17 | 208 | |||
Mar 2017 | 72/6 | Letter E | 15 | 178 | |||
Apr 2017 | 87/4 | Letter F | 15 | 184 | |||
May 2017 | 102/8 | Letter G | 13 | 157 | |||
Jun 2017 | 115/9 | Letter H | 16 | 195 | |||
Jul 2017 | 131/12 | Letter I | 12 | 133 | |||
Aug 2017 | 143/1 | Letter J | 16 | 194 | |||
Sep 2017 | 159/3 | Letter K | 19 | 237 | |||
Oct 2017 | 178/12 | Letter L | 24 | 285 | |||
Nov 2017 | 202/9 | Letter M | 24 | 280 | |||
Dec 2017 | 226/1 | Letter N | 19 | 236 | |||
Jan 2018 | 245/9 | Letter O | 21 | 245 | |||
Feb 2018 | 266/7 | Letter P | 25 | 295 | |||
Mar 2018 | 291/2 | Letters Q & R | 20 | 243 | |||
Apr 2018 | 311/5 | Letter S | 22 | 270 | |||
May 2018 | 333/11 | Superman’s 80th anniversary | 21 | 250 | |||
Jun 2018 | 354/9 | Letter T | 21 | 250 | |||
Jul 2018 | 375/7 | Letter U | 17 | 207 | |||
Aug 2018 | 392/10 | Letter V | 19 | 228 | |||
Sep 2018 | 411/10 | Letter W | 20 | 233 | |||
Oct 2018 | 431/3 | Letter X | 15 | 180 | |||
Nov 2018 | 446/3 | Letter Y | 13 | 156 | |||
Dec 2018 | 459/3 | Letter Z | 13 | 156 | |||
Jan 2019 | 472/3 | Person being carried | 16 | 190 | |||
Feb 2019 | 488/1 | Real people | 17 | 214 | |||
Mar 2019 | 505/11 | Homages/parodies | 19 | 224 | |||
Apr 2019 | 524/7 | Green-skinned people | 17 | 207 | |||
May 2019 | 541/10 | Wanted posters | 17 | 201 | |||
Jun 2019 | 558/7 | Boxing rings | 15 | 180 | |||
Jul 2019 | 573/7 | Empty uniforms | 15 | 177 | |||
Aug 2019 | 588/4 | Beaches | 25 | 297 | |||
Sep 2019 | 613/1 | Apes | 28 | 340 | |||
Oct 2019 | 641/5 | Haunted houses/graves | 21 | 250 | |||
Nov 2019 | 662/3 | Motor bikes | 21 | 254 | |||
Dec 2019 | 683/5 | Foreign language covers | 17 | 209 | |||
Jan 2020 | 700/10 | Playing cards/tabletop games | 23 | 275 | |||
Feb 2020 | 723/9 | Valentines and Cupids | 22 | 259 | |||
Mar 2020 | 745/4 | Statues | 21 | 256 | |||
Apr 2020 | 766/8 | Elephants | 22 | 263 | |||
May 2020 | 788/7 | Heroes & villains cooperating | 17 | 198 | |||
Jun 2020 | 805/1 | The Moon | 26 | 322 | |||
Jul 2020 | 831/11 | Flags & patriotic symbols | 18 | 215 | |||
Aug 2020 | 849/10 | Foreign locations (non-US) | 20 | 233 | |||
Sep 2020 | 869/3 | MST3K (with commentary) | 24 | 292 | |||
Oct 2020 | 893/7 | Vampires and Werewolves | 20 | 245 | |||
Nov 2020 | 913/12 | Giants | 24 | 286 | |||
Dec 2020 | 937/10 | Snow & winter scenes | 24 | 289 | |||
Jan 2021 | 961/11 | Doppelgängers | 32 | 377 | |||
Feb 2021 | 993/4 | Movies | 23 | 275 | |||
Mar 2021 | 1016/3 | Cats/cat-themed adventurers | 22 | 263 | |||
Apr 2021 | 1038/2 | Dogs/dog-themed adventurers | 25 | 305 | |||
May 2021 | 1063/7 | Big guns/Heavy weaponry | 25 | 302 | |||
Jun 2021 | 1088/9 | Dinosaurs/Time Travel | 28 | 338 | |||
Jul 2021 | 1116/11 | Big Questions/Question Marks | 28 | 330 | |||
Aug 2021 | 1144/5 | Highways, Travel etc | 19 | 232 | |||
Sep 2021 | 1163/9 | Favourite Covers/Comics | 28 | 330 | |||
Oct 2021 | 1191/3 | Lineups | 21 | 260 | |||
Nov 2021 | 1212/11 | JSA 80th Anniversary | 23 | 269 | |||
Dec 2021 | 1235/4 | Logos in the action | 26 | 317 | |||
Jan 2022 | 1261/9 | Dynamic Duos | 29 | 348 | |||
Feb 2022 | 1290/9 | Romantic Scenes | 26 | 313 | |||
Mar 2022 | 1316/10 | Bridges | 29 | 339 | |||
Apr 2022 | 1345/1 | Unexpected Green | 23 | 286 | |||
May 2022 | 1368/11 | Neal Adams | 26 | 310 | |||
Jun 2022 |
|
George Perez | |||||
Jul 2022 | Parents | ||||||
Aug 2022 | Fairgrounds/Carnivals |
Tags:
Odd composition. Is Thor actually standing on the Executioner's leg?
I feel sorry for the previous guy who had to hear "URANUS IS NEXT!"
Dave Palmer said:
Folks, don’t be fooled into buying some inferior system for shrinking things. With the Brainiac system you are limited to people or cities. With our revolutionary new system, you can shrink entire planets. Imagine an entire planet under glass sitting on your coffee table. You will be the envy of your friends and the talk of the town.
Why do the walls of the booth seem to be imploding?
From Superman's massively-increased gravitational attraction?
Here's a remarkably implausible booby trap. The typewriter (or at least, one specific key on its keyboard) must remain unused from the time the trap is set up to the moment the victim sits in the chair. The chair must be exactly lined up with the pistol. The secretary must hit the appropriate key while the victim is sitting in the chair, in the right place. The secretary must hit the key much harder than I would think is normal to supply sufficient force to pull the trigger. And how did the D.A. manage to pull the victim out of the way? Are U.S. legal personnel usually faster than a speeding bullet?
The only explanation that makes sense is to assume that the secretary is actually Mr X, and the D.A. was already on to her.
And Peter, I actually ROFL'd when I read your description of the cover of "Mr District Attorney". Brilliant!
Peter Wrexham said:
Why do the walls of the booth seem to be imploding?From Superman's massively-increased gravitational attraction?
Here's a remarkably implausible booby trap. The typewriter (or at least, one specific key on its keyboard) must remain unused from the time the trap is set up to the moment the victim sits in the chair. The chair must be exactly lined up with the pistol. The secretary must hit the appropriate key while the victim is sitting in the chair, in the right place. The secretary must hit the key much harder than I would think is normal to supply sufficient force to pull the trigger. And how did the D.A. manage to pull the victim out of the way? Are U.S. legal personnel usually faster than a speeding bullet?
The only explanation that makes sense is to assume that the secretary is actually Mr X, and the D.A. was already on to her.
The Blackhawk identity deteriorated swiftly once DC had taken the title over from Quality Comics. In the 40s Blackhawk monthly sales were measured in millions, often second only to Superman sales. After 1959 (when DC acquired the title) sales fell month by month until finally DC published the last issue in September 1968. The covers were generally awful, but reached a nadir here with issue #135. A villain with 1,000 hoops! Wow, I can feel the hairs raising on the back of my neck already! No wonder the team are running in abject fear!