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 | 1394/9 | George Perez | 19 | 227 |
Jul 2022 | 1413/8 | Parents | 30 | 356 |
Aug 2022 | 1443/4 | Fairgrounds and Carnivals | 24 | 285 |
Sep 2022 | 1467/1 | Joe Kubert | 19 | 238 |
Oct 2022 | 1486/11 | First and last issues | 27 | 324 |
Nov 2022 | 1513/11 | Classrooms and Education | 22 | 264 |
Dec 2022 | 1535/11 | Robots and Cyborgs | 33 | 392 |
Jan 2023 | 1568/7 | Trials and Courtrooms | ||
Feb 2023 | Doctors and Hospitals |
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Yeah, I've got some Romance comics and other fare in the queue. Meanwhile:
That isn't an actual cover! It's an ad and a Happy July 4th wish and a hope from north (and east) of the American border!
(Since I'm not an American citizen I don't want to be a harper so I'll say no moore, but sometimes I worry)
Here's an actual cover:
I actually found a patriotic/Fourth of July themed Parents cover for today!
Besides playing the family band's mother, Shirley Jones was actually David Cassidy's mother in real life at the time.
On the show, I always figured Shirley Partridge was a widow but did they ever confirm this, let alone say who the father/husband was?
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Yes-- stated, first episode, in Shirley's vo ("My husband had died six months previously....") and I'm not sure if it ever gets mentioned again.
Lee Houston, Junior said:
I actually found a patriotic/Fourth of July themed Parents cover for today!
Besides playing the family band's mother, Shirley Jones was actually David Cassidy's mother in real life at the time.
On the show, I always figured Shirley Partridge was a widow but did they ever confirm this, let alone say who the father/husband was?
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
By 1967, DC had reached a continuity crisis. Supes had first hit the newsstands in 1938, so when DC decided to introduce Superboy, it was necessary to base him in the late 1920's/early 30's, for continuity. However, by 1967, the Superboy comic which was was still selling well, was still basing Smallville in the early 30s, and portraying Ma and Pa Kent as a jovial, old, grey-haired couple. This didn't sit well with readers, who having done their math, calculated that Superman would have been a teenager in the mid 50s, and that his foster-parents would only be in their late 30s. Mort decided that major surgery was required, and commissioned one of the stupidest stories ever - even by silver-age standards. In order to give Ma & Pa Kent a more youthful appearance, he decided that the whole Superboy saga was being watched by aliens from the planet Thraxx (shades of The Truman Show!) and that these aliens were demanding from the show's producer that the Kents needed to be younger looking in order to achieve better ratings. The producer (Jolax) visited Earth and fed the Kents (and their neighbours) with a diluted youth serum. Despite Superboy's attempts, the serum was totally non-reversible, so from this issue onwards, the Kents had a far more youthful appearance. Since the neighbours did too, no one apparently thought this was weird. I remember reading this story and thinking a ten year old's version of WTF?
Steve W said:
By 1967, DC had reached a continuity crisis. Supes had first hit the newsstands in 1938, so when DC decided to introduce Superboy, it was necessary to base him in the late 1920's/early 30's, for continuity. However, by 1967, the Superboy comic which was was still selling well, was still basing Smallville in the early 30s, and portraying Ma and Pa Kent as a jovial, old, grey-haired couple. This didn't sit well with readers, who having done their math, calculated that Superman would have been a teenager in the mid 50s, and that his foster-parents would only be in their late 30s. Mort decided that major surgery was required, and commissioned one of the stupidest stories ever - even by silver-age standards. In order to give Ma & Pa Kent a more youthful appearance, he decided that the whole Superboy saga was being watched by aliens from the planet Thraxx (shades of The Truman Show!) and that these aliens were demanding from the show's producer that the Kents needed to be younger looking in order to achieve better ratings. The producer (Jolax) visited Earth and fed the Kents (and their neighbours) with a diluted youth serum. Despite Superboy's attempts, the serum was totally non-reversible, so from this issue onwards, the Kents had a far more youthful appearance. Since the neighbours did too, no one apparently thought this was weird. I remember reading this story and thinking a ten year old's version of WTF?
This story sounds even worse than I'd heard. I had stopped buying the Weisinger books a few years earlier, and don't regret it.
Yeah, but ... here on Earth-Prime, when they gave us the Smallville TV series, Ma and Pa Kent were not white-haired and wrinkled, but were decidedly younger and sexier.
So, in a weird way, that story actually came true!
Steve W said:
By 1967, DC had reached a continuity crisis. Supes had first hit the newsstands in 1938, so when DC decided to introduce Superboy, it was necessary to base him in the late 1920's/early 30's, for continuity. However, by 1967, the Superboy comic which was was still selling well, was still basing Smallville in the early 30s, and portraying Ma and Pa Kent as a jovial, old, grey-haired couple. This didn't sit well with readers, who having done their math, calculated that Superman would have been a teenager in the mid 50s, and that his foster-parents would only be in their late 30s. Mort decided that major surgery was required, and commissioned one of the stupidest stories ever - even by silver-age standards. In order to give Ma & Pa Kent a more youthful appearance, he decided that the whole Superboy saga was being watched by aliens from the planet Thraxx (shades of The Truman Show!) and that these aliens were demanding from the show's producer that the Kents needed to be younger looking in order to achieve better ratings. The producer (Jolax) visited Earth and fed the Kents (and their neighbours) with a diluted youth serum. Despite Superboy's attempts, the serum was totally non-reversible, so from this issue onwards, the Kents had a far more youthful appearance. Since the neighbours did too, no one apparently thought this was weird. I remember reading this story and thinking a ten year old's version of WTF?