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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ClarkKent_DC > Lee Houston, Junior May 4, 2024 at 9:19pm
According to the GCD, before Atari Force (1984-85), Gerry Conway and José Luis García-López also produced the first six issues of the ongoing series Hercules Unbound, though they didn't get cover credit on that series.
Issue #1 was cover-dated October-November 1975:
Just to follow the second theme of the month, here's issue #5 of the Conway/García-López run. It's nice to see Herc in England, though it's a pity about Big Ben!
Evidently, whoever knocked the clock tower down also shrunk it. In the present day, the clockface is 23 feet across. Also - pedantry alert - "Big Ben" is the name of the bell, while since 2012 the tower is more correctly called "The Elizabeth Tower".
I don't think cover credit for those contributing to an issue was "a thing" until the 1980s, and even then not every title featured it every issue until around the original Crisis On Infinite Earths. Nowadays it's rare to see an issue without those credits, but they certainly weren't around during the Gold and Silver Ages.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
Also - pedantry alert - "Big Ben" is the name of the bell, while since 2012 the tower is more correctly called "The Elizabeth Tower".
I did not lnow that!
Hercules is just confused. That's actually the lesser known "Little Ben" in the "Margaret Tower."
Action Comics #386, March 1970. cover by Curt Swan. This issue was the middle one in a three part run (385-387) about Superman ageing, and ageing, and ageing. Because of the vagaries of the T & P distribution system, this comic appeared in the newsagents here in the UK before issue 385. I bought it but deliberately put it to one side without reading it until I could acquire #385, which I managed to find, in a different shop, a week later.
Normally I try to post something fun on the weekends, but this is the closest I can come using this month's dual themes. Clint Eastwood was allegedly supposed to play Harvey Dent and his alter ego. I can easily see the costume department doing the outfit, but cannot picture how far the make up department would have gone to get the right look. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
A year after the DC Implosion took him out, Firestorm the Nuclear Man returned in DC Comics Presents #17 (Ja'80)! He joined the Justice League six months later which led to him becoming the back-up in The Flash then his revived series Fury of Firestorm!
Here's the Garcia-Lopez cover to Detective Comics #487, with and without the logo, blurbs. price tag, UPC code, etc.
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