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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November 2021 - JSA 80th Anniversary.
Happy November, and HAPPY 80TH ANNIVERSARY to the legendary Justice Society of America!
At the dawn of comic books, all titles were anthologies. Some built around a theme (Action, Detective, More Fun, etc) while others had a lead character (Flash also contained Hawkman and Johnny Thunder, among others.)
All Star Comics started out as a traditional anthology...
But with issue 3 a radical (for its time) new concept was introduced: the SUPER TEAM!
Yet while the Winter 1940 issue of All Star debuted the legendary Justice Society of America, even the cover admitted that it was just their first meeting, as the characters only related their individual stories that were already slated to be published that issue.
The team's first true adventure (before retconning) wasn't reported until issue 4, going against spies and saboteurs at the request of the FBI, although America officially entering World War 2 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor was still months away.
And the rest is history. There would be roster changes along the way, with the next major development occurring in issue 8. Why that event didn't even get mentioned on the cover is beyond me, but I'll save that for either someone else or another day.
(All images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Sing along with the JSA!
I suspect they're trying to indicate that Hawkman is standing in the darkness, but it rather looks as though someone forget to colour him in.
Challenge accepted.
Crossover, perhaps?
Peter Wrexham said:
Sigh. I knew I was making a mistake even as I wrote it. Well done, Dave, I take my hat off to you!
Here's the latest update to the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes, together with a reminder of next month's theme.
December's "Logos in the action" theme includes covers where the logo is part of the scene depicted. For example, a character may be destroying the logo, or otherwise interacting with it. Also valid would be comics where a character bursts through the cover, or folds it back to show what's inside, and so on.
Now we've got that decided, what shall we do in January?
One of the best "recent" (25 years old) appearances of the JSA. If I interpret the timeline correctly (no longer a thing, really), this "Times Past" story slots in right around Infinity, Inc. #1
No, that effect was because Hawkman was missing and the JSA were trying to find him!
JD DeLuzio said:
I'm almost positive that Justice League of America #110 (Ap'74) was the first time that I saw the Justice Society as I missed the previous Freedom Fighters issues.
Plus there was that beautiful Murphy Anderson two-page portrait that got imprinted in my young eight-year old head!
Where to start in my choice of covers for November? What with about a cover that manages to highlight the two most important comics in the Silver-Age history of the Justice Society (and two JSA-related others that I'm personally very fond of)?
One of the nicest All-Star covers
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