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 guess Abbott and Costello must have had an HB cartoon around the time of Huckleberry Hound. Don't feel like looking it up.
Beavis and Butthead will finish the month for me.
The Abbott and Costello Show (cartoon) ran from September 9, 1967 to June 1, 1968. I recall seeing a couple of episodes, circa 1970, and finding them uninteresting even by Saturday morning cartoon kid standards. All I can recall is Costello yelling "hey, Abbott!" and being chased. The show was apparently criticized for being repetitive and lacking in the verbal repartee we associate with the duo. I recall reading that Lynn Johnston, of For Better of for Worse fame, worked as a cell colourist for the show as one of her early art jobs, and hated the series.
Now you don't have to look it up.
Funhouse mirrors
Space Circus....Of the FUTURE!
Afraid I have no transition cover to share but to close out our Carnival/Fairgrounds revue, a good old fashioned County Fair with some eternal problems.
And to close out August, one last HAPPY 75TH ANNIVERSARY to the Black Canary!
If she wanted to change uniforms I didn't mind the top and boots, but the fishnet stockings should have stayed.
(Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Here's a selection of carnival and fairground attractions to finish the month.
Yet another roller coaster.
A carousel/merry go round.
The Punch and Judy Alfred show.
I'll say goodbye to August with eerie goings-on in the tunnel of love and on the rollercoaster.
In preparation for a new month I was cleaning out my “fairground” covers and came across this Abbott and Costello cover. It’s probably more appropriately a “circus” cover but we were discussing Abbott and Costello a day or two ago. We were discussing their H-B incarnation, which Charlton licensed. One of the cover artists was Lily Renee who passed away a few days ago at 101.
Here's a Kubert circus cover to help with the transition to September.
September 2022 - Joe Kubert.
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