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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Black Cat #10 and Bulletman #10
Hat trick: Treehouse of Horror #10 features floating heads of some of the creepiest, most Halloween-appropriate performers in pop history:
Something a little different - a head (and other assorted oddities) floating in pickling solution.
I can't think of too many comic book headliners who attempted suicide. Other than Vanth Dreadstar, only Bruce Banner comes readily to mind. Any others?
Adrian Chase, the Vigilante. John Stewart in Cosmic Odyssey. Adam Warlock. Arguably Iron Man, in Operation Galactic Storm and a few other occasions. Magnetic Kid during the Magic Wars. Doctor Strange in a couple of situations. Ferro Lad. Parallax. Phantom Stranger. Arguably Marvel's Phoenix in the early 1980s. Apparently Wesley Dodds and perhaps Morpheus.
Oh, and Boston Brand, in order to save his brother.
I'm familiar with most of those, but I would argue that sacrificing one's life for the greater good (such as reigniting the Sun) is not "suicide" per se. Vanth Dreadstar and and Bruce Banner simply put a gun to their head and pulled the trigger.
Hank Pym seriously considered it in West Coast Avengers #17.
Let's try three more from Gold Key
Professor X Versus Mentallo---Brain-o a Brain-o!
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