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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The Gold Key horror comics were a pale imitation of EC's, but I rather enjoyed them as a kid, and I've bought or re-bought a few from my childhood, including this watery one:
Moonlighting from their "day job" ar DC
Maiden, Mother, Crone, in the case of The Witching Hour.
I have never read the story in my life JD, but based upon the one panel you posted, I'm going to guess they're three crooks in drag hiding from the law. But why does the boy remind me of Jonny Quest?
That would have been entirely plausible in a 70s horror comic and I see it now, but, no, the explanation is far more disturbing.
The explanation is far more disturbing.
More disturbing than Jerry Grandenetti's art? I find that hard to believe!
Flashlights on your knees would be absolutely useless. One on your forehead, that moved with your eyes, would make more sense.
At the beach with Sugar and Spike
Just kicking back and chilling on a beautiful but lazy afternoon. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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