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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Darn, I forgot to save my two Donald Duck covers (posted on Wednesday) for the transition to March. I'll just have to be a Big Boy about it, and own up to the mistake :-(
"I always thought Rick Fletcher was the best of the post-Gould Dick Tracy artists."
Definitely. both Fletcher and Lochler were former Gould assistants: Fletcher at the time of Gould's retirement and Lochler in the '60s. Fletcher fully expected to take over for Gould, but the Tribune syndicate didn't see it that way and hired Max Allen Collins to write. Fletcher eventually became sick and his art really began to deteriorate toward the end. He was weeks ahead on Sundays (which have an earlier deadline than the dailies) at the time. Consequently, for a time Lochler was doing the dailies between Fletcher's already-completed Sundays.
All three of these volumes contained the work of Collins and Fletcher (before he was sick), but the publisher chose a drawing by Lochler for volume one for some reason.
Some detectives I don’t think we’ve seen yet
Last from me this month. Back tomorrow with a selection of birds and winged creatures...
Here's a crossover cover. Whereas Jon Sable is by no means a "detective" by any stretch of the imagination, Sam Spade is, and this story deals with the theft of the famous Maltese Falcon movie prop.
Here's my last one
The Falcon must solve a murder, helped only by Redwing!
I have a couple of other detective/private eye covers in my queue, but since it is time to transition I will post this one for a Detective/Winged Creatures combo.
Detective #651
April 2023 - Birds and Winged Creatures.
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