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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Let's see what Alex Toth has to say from Super Friends
Metamorpho and Sargon were honorary members.
Robin and Plastic Man are included because they appeared on "Super Friends".
The ladies all guest-starred or cameo'd in JLA!
My first offering for "Floating Heads" month is a cover that's actually labelled "The Floating Head", and illustrates a story titled "I Dared Defy the Floating Head".
My favourite Marvel floating heads cover. I bought this issue in the summer of 1967.
Metamorpho and Sargon were honorary [JLA] members.
True enough that Sargon the Sorcerer was an honorary JLAer. JLA # 99 (Jun., 1972) noted the awarding of his honorary status with the team.
However, Metamorpho was not an honorary member of the Justice League. Rather, his status with the team, as reported at the tend of JLA # 42 (Feb., 1966), was as a stand-by member.
Metamorpho stood-by for a long, long time!
I'm not 100% sure that they're not the same thing, at least as the JLA sees it. After all, Adam Strange wasn't an honorary member though he should have been. It's not as seperated as the Honorary Legionnaire/Legion Reserve distinction.
There were other male heroes who helped the JLA who weren't included in the Super Friends tabloid with Adam being the most prominent excludee. There was also the Vigilante, the Creeper, the Phantom Stranger, heck, you could even include Two-Face! (I'm not including Deadman because only Batman knew he was there!)
It seemed like the five main Teen Titans: Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl and Speedy had some status with the JLA being authorized to beam aboard the Satellite!
All Star #10
I just noticed that there are also floating heads!
I'm not 100% sure that [honorary member/stand-by member are] not the same thing, at least as the JLA sees it.
Oh, the Justice League certainly recognises some difference between the two statuses. Most notably, Metamorpho (stand-by member) did not receive a JLA signal device the way Snapper Carr (honorary member) did.
"Well, maybe Metamorpho did get a signal device, but it wasn't shown," yells one of the well-maybe crowd.
Not likely. Gardner Fox's attention to detail and wordiness as a writer would've inserted such a panel in JLA # 42, if he'd intended there to be one. But even so, there are other observable distinctions between Snapper Carr's status and the Element Man's.
Notably, Snapper had a regular chair at the council table. He was expected to attend all regular JLA meetings, and when he missed one, he submitted his reason for being absent (as seen in JLA # 21-2 and # 36, for example), just like the full-fledged members were required to do.
You never saw a twelfth chair, for Metamorpho, at the council table.
Then, in JLA # 50 (Dec., 1966), the entire Justice League of America attends the White House ceremony at which Master Sergeant Eddie Brent receives the Medal of Honor. Snapper is there---Metamorpho is not. Now,sure, the Well-Maybes would suggest that the Element Man might've been busy on a case and couldn't attend. But, the point is, if Gardner Fox had intended a stand-by membership in the JLA to have the same status as an honorary membership, then he would've included Metamorpho in that scene, just like he included all of the regular members who missed out on the issue's adventure.
Even by superhero standards this was a strange wedding. 10 characters if you include the snake.
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