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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Superboy #96. Another Curt Swan cover. I found this comic in a pile, all reduced to 2p each, in a shop that specialised in selling off old stock and I snapped it up. With a cover like that, who wouldn't!
"My lasso is powerless"
Bulletman #15, the penultimate issue
Who would have guessed that we could make a three of a kind out of covers featuring the Kyrptonian thought-monster. Actually, there are at least four that I have found. Each cover gives some indication or hint of its "powers." One is tempted to ask what possible evolutionary value could this have. It's not like a rattlesnakes's rattle or a bug that is brightly colored red--communicating "don't mess with me, I'm dangerous and you will regret it," or "I'm poisonous, don't eat me." Instead we get "I plan on eating you, so you should take steps to escape right now."
Additionally, it is extremely self-aware in that it can imagine itself in the future. However you want to slice it, this animal has self-awareness, conscienceness, sentience, and possibly sapience. It is not a "dumb beast." It has intelligence and should be treated just like any other intelligent alien species, albeit a dangerous one.
Of course, I'm overthinking this. Was this ever addressed in the stories?
"My magic powers"
When your "magic word" teels everyone what you can do!
Once again life had other ideas instead of what I wanted to do, so I'll be posting double features tonight and tomorrow to catch up. I know the plot of these two is repetitious, but what else can you do with a super baby? (All images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Okay, it's after midnight Eastern Daylight Time where I am, so here's Saturday's double feature, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Sea Devils #15 and Star Spangled #15
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