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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X-Men #3 was my first X-Men. Too bad they didn't have a better opponent.
I truly have no idea which supposed "anniversary" is being celebrated here. The "150th"? (The magazine itself observed 20 years of publication last year.) Or is it some vague "50th anniversary" of the decade itself? I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine. Nice cover, though.
Front cover: "The super-sized, star-studded 200th issue"
Back cover: "A 72-page anniversary epic"
Doesn't say which anniversary, though!
Actually, the sale date (although not the cover date) corresponds exactly with the 20 year anniversary of JLA #9, the origin of the team, to which JLA #200 is a sequel.
You don't suppose that the issue number had something to do with it being an anniversary, do you?
Boy, you guys have tough standards!
At first glance, Steve, I thought those were "Snap-Happies," which were individual plastic sleeves which could be snapped together in any number to create wall-hangings from actual comic books. (Haven't seen any of those since the '80s, though.) No, I have never seen canvasses such as those. It looks as if at least one of them has some "fine print" which may have the manufacturer's name. A while back we were in a craft store having some framing done and I noticed quite a few bolts of comic book-themed cloth, both Marvel and DC, both classic and new. That's not the same thing but, depending on your level of craftsmanship, you may be able to stretch some of that cloth on a frame and vary up your display a little bit.
Thanks Jeff, for that suggestion. That's a good idea - I never thought of creating my own canvas! But I agree it could be done - and I could pull together my own favourite covers! Going to look into that in more detail.
And Pete, thanks for the heads-up about adding replies. I had never even seen that "reply" button at the top of the screen before!
My offering for today.
Well, Cap's question about Fu Manchu has already been answered. Meanwhile, here's the two remaining covers to complete the comics adaptation of the third film in the original trilogy, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
I read about the Avengers battling the Mad Thinker's Triumvirate of Terror consisting of Hammerhead, Piledriver and Thunderboot in an issue of Marvel Triple Action!
The funny thing is that if Hercules wasn't there, these goobers would have beaten the Avengers!
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