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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Up until now I've been concentrating on figurative, not literal, floating heads, but Nexus featues a "race" of miners, lured to remote asteroids by false promises of jobs, only to be butchered by Clausius the slaver so their heads could be used to power his telekinetic transfer device.
Journey into Mystery #10
I've never read Dynamic Comics, but this 1944 issue features a memorable "head" cover:
This ish was among some comics my brother traded for, and it was the first time I heard of Daredevil or was even really aware of Marvel Comics. I knew who Spider-man was, however, and felt a little disappointed that he appeared on the cover but only in one or two panels within.
Whatever happened to this guy?
"Crazier than The Joker! Deadlier than Ra's al Ghul! Introducing a villain for the '80s! Black Mask!"
For a moment there I thought someone was posting to my Tom Mandrake thread.
Part of his backstory was being attacked by a rabid raccoon when still a child. Nudge that a little and we might have had "Crazier than the Joker! Deadlier than Ra's Al Ghul! Introducing a villain for the '80s! Trash Panda!"
Actually, that's not a bad villain name.... Hmm....
I kinda liked Black Mask as a villain. He's been popping up in a lot of things lately.
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