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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Well, there was a "United Arab Republic" from 1958-1961. I don't know when the story in question was originally published (this seesm to have been a reprint book), so I don't know how much of an archaism it might have been.
That's an Atomic Knights story and as the cover says, it happened in the "future" of 1986!
It is a 1970 reprint book with one new story (a half-text feature starring Adam Strange). The Atomic Knights story comes from Strange Adventures #144 (1962).
The United Arab Republic (composed by Egypt and Syria) was "de facto" dissolved a year prior when Syria had a coup d'etat, but Egypt kept soldiering on with that name until 1971. It was somewhat reasonable at the time to guess that there could be an "Arab Republic" in 1986.
For my part, I noticed the reference to "England", rather than "Britain" or "The United Kingdom". Evidently, the story is set in a version of 1986 where the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein had each won independence for their respective nations.
It also seemed to me that the heads representing Israel and France bear a certain resemblance to Golda Meir and Charles de Gaulle. The head for "Arab Republic", on the other hand, looks like the first incarnation of The Master from Doctor Who, as played by Roger Delgado
"The Joker for President". Was this prescient?
Unexpected #11. Not particularly horrifying.
Since The Incredible Hulk took over Tales to Astonish with #102, his second run never had a true issue #11 (and his first only lasting six issue). However, it had these issues of The Man Who Probably Wasn't Too Found of Green, Either:
A collection of anti-Hitler comics from the fine folks who brought us The Tick, Paul the Samurai and Man-Eating Cow.
She was kinda close, in her way. But what if... she could fly?
So far this month I've worked my way through President #7. Things get a little tougher from here to #16, who arguably has appeared on the most comic book covers--I've got a bunch for later in the.month. Today, I have Tecumseh, whose story can't be told without future president #9, General William Henry Harrison.
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