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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But what are the chances of that ever happening?
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #12
And Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #61:
Donald's been waiting outside that phone booth for a loooong time (1967 to 1994).
Incidentally, "The Red Wasp Mystery with Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Chief O'Hara". That wouldn't be the Chief O'Hara from the Batman TV show, would it? The cover date of 1967 is in the right time frame...
This is a different Chief O'Hara, who predates the Batman version. His history can be found here. He has apparently appeared a number of times in different media.
This O'Hara apparently debuted in what was also the first Phantom Blot story (1939). As a matter of fact, one of the jokes of those strips is that he is suspected of being the Blot for a panel or two.
In Brazilian stories he appeared, very, very often, and at one point became a costumed gadget-based adventurer himself, if only for a couple of stories.
In English-speaking countries, he is probably best known for his role in the stories that introduced Red Wasp and, much earlier, Phantom Blot.
Red Wasp was created for an American story, but only had that single appearance. Nearly all of his appearances are part of Brazilian stories, of which there were many along quite a few decades.
Many, many Disney characters were created in Brazil and in Italy.
https://www.planocritico.com/critica-clube-dos-herois-disney-origem...
As I made that offhand remark about Chief O'Hara, I felt sure that someone on the board would know the answer, and be happy enlighten me. You guys didn't fail me. Many thanks, JD and Luis!
Just where is Jellystone Park anyway???
In the woods just west of Riverdale and north of Springfield.
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