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 | 28 | 330 |
Feb 2023 | 1596/1 | Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals | 24 | 292 |
Mar 2023 | 1620/5 | Detectives & Murder Mysteries | 34 | 411 |
Apr 2023 | 1654/8 | Birds and Winged Creatures | 35 | 419 |
May 2023 | 1689/7 | Strength in Numbers | 48 | 570 |
Jun 2023 | 1737/1 | Horses, Centaurs & Equines | ||
Jul 2023 | Railways |
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The tail end of the index should now look as shown below. I have, presumptuously, put my suggestion of "Classrooms" in as the possible theme for November. Feel free to put forward alternatives if you don't like it!
Date | Page/Reply | Theme (and clickable link) | Pages | Replies |
Sep 2022 | 1467/1 | Joe Kubert | 19 | 238 |
Oct 2022 | 1486/11 | First and last issues | ||
Nov 2022 | Classrooms? |
I suspect my choices this month will fall into one of two categories: 1) long-running titles which changed greatly over the course of their runs, and 2) relatively short-run titles which are self-aware of their own "mortality." Here is an example of the first.
Strange Tales became Doctor Strange with #169 and ran through #183...
Later, an actual Strange Tales #169 was published and it ran through #188...
In addition to Brother Voodoo, the revival also featured the Golem and Adam Warlock before reverting to Doctor Strange reprints.
Okay, I've got the hang of this month's theme although I put all my covers in two separate folders, FIRST and LAST because I originally thought it was an either/or situation, so it will take me a bit of time to reunite the pairs for each posting.
Anyway, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database...
Have never read the series although the art looks promising despite the traditional Silver Age story indicated by the last issue's cover.
Mini-series count this month?
Anyway, title changes can be tricky. In this case what we know today as DC Comics' very first title was New Fun Comics but with issue 7 became More Fun Comics. Always an anthology title, it ran the genre gauntlet before ending with just humor features but Doctor Occult, The Spectre, Doctor Fate, Congo Bill, Johnny Quick, Green Arrow, Aquaman and Superboy all got their starts there.
(Images and info courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)