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 "A Cover A Day: Nominations, Themes and Statistics" thread. Click here to view the thread, or here to go to its last reply.
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This isn't Jesse 'Preacher' Custer. This is Cassidy, the "hard drinking Irish vampire" and his best friend.
Hawkman and Hawkgirl! I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of Flash Comics had Hawk covers... he was awfully popular!
We've seen plenty of examples of a hero displaced from the cover of their title by a villain. Here's the reverse, with The Joker cover-featuring James Gordon.
That wasn't the only cover where the Joker has been displaced, but I'm pretty sure that James Gordon was the only good guy to do it.
Further examples...
Apocalypse and His Horsemen, none were part of X-Factor!
Let's go with some tombstones
Seriously running late tonight so am just squeaking in under the wire, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
The one good thing about being so late is I can get a jump on posting my cover for Thursday before I go to bed for the night.
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The Kindaichi Case Files starred Kindaichi Hajime, one of the numerous teen detectives that populate popular culture. He was initially presented as being the grandson of well-known (in Japan, at least) fictional detective Kindaichi Kousuke, but that angle was dropped after Hajime's publishers received a call from Kousuke's lawyers. a
later volume featured an appearance by one Edward Columbo, who was implied (but never openly stated) to be the nephew of Lieutenant Frank Columbo.
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