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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Beware the Creeper was one of the short-lived series in 1967-68. Its single Showcase issue was followed immediately with issues 1 thru 6 of his own title.
First and last; that sound like a good approach.
Judge Colt. #1 (October 1969) to #4 (September 1970)
While Showcase had a long run, this particular, "unusual story" lasted only three issues, leaving Jason's quest incomplete (I own two of the three):
Jason, 18, finds out that a gangster murdered his real father and that he has a long-lost twin sister. He then sets out to search for the sister and the killer, finding adventures and frequent near-misses with the people he seeks. It ended, mid-quest, after three issues. Although nothing indicates that these characters exist on Earth-One or anywhere else in the known DC universe, Jason Grant later makes a cameo in Animal Man during Morrison's run (still searching for his sister), and, apparently, another, earlier cameo in the late-70s Showcase #100.
John Byrne's Danger Unlimited, 4 issues.
Bogglingly, according to the GCD, Brother Power the Geek was "DC's answer to the Silver Surfer". Planned as an ongoing series, it only lasted two issues (October and December 1968).
Pacific Presents lasted four issues from 1982-1984. The first two had Dave Stevens' iconic Rocketeer and Steve Ditko's Missing Man.
The last two no one cares about!
Running late today but I still made it. The Legion of Superheroes got their very first solo series in the early 1970s. All four issues were just reprints, but behind some good Nick Cardy covers. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Avengers #16 introduced what became known as "Cap's Kooky Quartet."
Great cover, huh?
Go-Go was Charlton's attempt to cross a Mad clone with a Teen magazine. It sounds crazy enough to work.... but the two issues I've read suggest why it only lasted nine issues, from 1966-67. It throws a lot of ideas at the wall, some of them inspired, but the humour rarely even hits Madhouse level. There's also a strange, cracked tension between the fawning articles and b&w photos of pop stars, and jokes that clearly show an older writer's hostility towards and incomprehension of the music and youth culture of the time.
Vengence Squad ran for six issues from 1975 to 1976. The backup was Michael Mauser by Nick Cuti and Joe Staton.
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