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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No problem; I looked it up. In Fear #20, Angel appears only in the MTU part of the flashback. When Morbius breaks free, only Professor X and Cyclops are present. Cyclops says, "I'll get Marvel Girl and..." to which Xavier responds, "No! It's too late--he's escaped! Besides, we have more pressing concerns--the mysterious abductions of the other X-Men!" A footnote adds: "Details coming up in Captain America/Falcon soon!"
Thanks, I was going to dig it up tomorrow!
So was Morbius' escape a flashback or not? It seems weird that Xavier was tending to Morbius (and feeding him what exactly?) while mutants are disappearing one by one!
Yeah, the whole sequence was a flashback: the end of MTU #4 into the escape scene. Reading just MTU #4 gives the impression that Morbius remains in the custody of Morbius' former colleague, Hans Jorgensen, but not according to Fear #20. Incidentally, Morbius appeared in Vampire Tales #1 and Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1 between MTU #4 and Fear #20 with no mention of how he escaped custody, so the flashback in Fear #20 must occur prior to Vampire Tales #1.
It's a gorgeous day outside and while I'm nowhere near a beach, here's an early but reprinted Jose Luis Garcia Lopez cover that is, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Two Flash covers featuring the Rogues Gallery, one very early (June 1975), one much more recent (May 2020). The early one has José Luis García-López inks over pencils by Ernie Chan, the later has both pencils and inks by García-López.
Lois Lane #105 - October 1970, Curt Swan cover.
All of Skywald's fifth issues, which all happen to be B&W magazines
Black Cat #5
Fitzgerald's fifth issues
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