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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What could be more "number 1" than Action Comics #1?
What could be more "number 1" than Action Comics #1?
Detective Comics #1?
I'll start with Alabama, the first state alphabetically. This is a French comic, Liberty Bessie, un pilote de l'Alabama.
It's not a comic, but here's Superman in front of an important Cleveland, Ohio landmark.
I just read a sequence in The Complete Funky Winkerbean v13 (from 2008 or 2009) whihc featured the Siegel House.
Didn't find anything for #1, Delaware, but here's one for #2, Pennsylvania:
So - number 1s. Great - here's my first No. 1.
When we returned to school in Septermber 1966 after the summer break, my friend Kevin told me that during the summer holidays he'd bought his first American comic and that it was brilliant. We both had a love for comics already but strictly of the British variety, mainly things like Beano, The Dandy and Beezer.
He had bought Adventure #336 at the end of August, and proceeded to lend it to me on that 1st day back at school. I took it home, read it and was mesmerised! Nothing like British comics, this was about a team of teenagers living in the 30th century, with super powers! I was hooked. Thus began a love affair that ran for six years. This then, was my 1st US comic, my introduction to a whole new world; a very real number 1.
Good choice, Steve! Not my first comic, bit my first Superboy comic was #177, which featured a reprint of Adventure Comics #320, my first Legion of Super-Heroes story.
I'm stuck for state covers (really good ones, anyway), but I forgot about the dual theme.
I may jump in with some states once I see how it plays out.
Since personal Number Ones count, here is what may possibly the first comic I ever read in my entire life:
I say possibly because it was one of a few lying around my grandmother's house when I was a wee lad. There is another candidate, which will get a separate entry.
Anyway, I remember The Three Mouseketeers (Vol. 2) #3 (Sept. Oct. 1970) because one story featured Minus, one of the trio, answering a letter from a fan asking how it is that he and pals Fatsy and Patsy know how to read and write. Turns out they are self-taught (yay!) with the aid of a primer lying around their hang out. Unfortunately, they came across this example: "I see the cat. The cat sees me."
This frightened the group into discontinuing their lessons.
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