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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Here are a few more (or I accidentally hit “add reply” — take your pick).
Philip Portelli said:
A trio of World's Finest covers:
I was surprised that two of these three covers were lacking Batman. I discovered that this was a brief period when World's Finest was functioning like The Brave and the Bold, with Superman teaming with a different hero every issue.
End of the month. My favourite Adams cover (as at today).
Sorry, Luis. I don't know. I picked up the Phantom Stranger #14 info from the online DC Fandom synopsis.
Luis Olavo de Moura Dantas said:
Lee Houston, Junior:
The "Swampster" looks more like Marvel's Man-Thing to me.
By the way, these are the on-sale dates of:
House of Secrets #92 (first Swamp Thing) April 1, 1971
Phanton Stranger #14 May 18, 1971
Fear #10 (first Man-Thing) July 25, 1972
Swamp Thing (ongoing) #1 August 10, 1972
(dates from Mike's Amazing World)
Solomon Grundy and The Heap started in the 40s.
Theodore Sturgeon's prose story "It!" was the first skeleton-based swamp monster, published in 1940.
I don’t have access to my collection at present but over on the GCD they had this to say about the Dr. 13 story in Phantom Stranger #14
Ooh, I'm going to borrow those stats for the "Heap" discussion I just started if you don't mind.
Richard Willis said:
I really liked that period of WFC, though they didn't take that many chances despite Superman's popularity. The only "surprise" team-ups were Doctor Fate, Martian Manhunter and Vigilante.
Richard Willis said:
I guess the answer for Luis is “yes.”
Here’s the story synopsis from dc.fandom.com/wiki:
Synopsis for Doctor 13: "Spectre of the Stalking Swamp!"
Dr. Thirteen is called into Bayou country to investigate reports of a strange swamp monster dubbed the Swampster, who is supposedly responsible for the disappearance of people in the area. What they stumble upon is a plot by Professor Zachary Nail, who has built a secret city untainted by the destruction the human race is doing to the planet. People who have gone missing have been mentally conditioned to do Nail's bidding.
When Dr. Thirteen is captured and put under this process, however when ordered to capture his wife, Thirteen shakes off the control. During his fight with Nail, the swamp suddenly and inexplicably begins crushing the domed city, forcing everyone to flee as the domed city is destroyed.
June 2022 - George Perez.
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