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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Right you are. As a matter of fact, Amazing Spider-Man #1 guesting the FF went on sale the same day as FF #12, guesting the Hulk.
Rick McCollum's Ashley Dust ran for 4 issues in 1994-1995.
Congo Bill: 7 bi-monthly issues, from September 1954 to September 1955.
Since Philip Portelli Dave Palmer, I mean, Dave Palmer posted Tiger-Girl yesterday:
It only lasted three issues. I actually had this one in my hands in '75, but it didn't appeal as much as whatever else I bought, probably Marvel Two-in-One.
I later read issue #1 online. It wasn't too bad.
Given the quantum discussion over on the Everything, Anything or Nothing At All thread, I'm beginning to wonder if I truly exist
Whoops! I mean, Dave Palmer posted Tiger Girl! Philip had the next post and I did some kind of eye-skip.
(and, speaking of eye, Skip)
Might as well finish our posting of "Tiger" superheroes
Ultragirl. 3 issues.
Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen was spun off from Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos as Howlers Dum Dum Dugan, Dino Manelli and Pinky Pinkerton are quicly added then removed in favor of more convicted soldiers.
Based on a 1950's Atlas war book and, of course, the hit film The Dirty Dozen (1967), this book lasted nine issues and had one of the most depressing endings to a comic book series...ever!
I spent years hunting down all the issues!
Inferior Five lasted slightly more than 12 issues, but the last two were reprints. From Wikipedia:
"After appearing in Showcase #62, 63, and 65 (1966), they got their own title which lasted 12 issues. The first 10 had new material and were published from 1967 to 1968.[3]
Issues #11 and 12 were published in 1972, and titled Inferior 5 (using the number 5 rather than spelling out the word) and were all reprints, except for the covers."
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