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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Plastic Man was revived in the mid 1960s by DC after they acquired the rights to him from Quality Comics. Sadly he lasted for only 10 issues, although he was subsequently revived again in the mid 1970s and the title numbering continued. Too late for me though.
Between the Russian hero with the original Teen Titans and Princess Koriand'r with the New group, there was an alien Starfire who had a brief 8 issue run. She started with David Michelinie, then had Elliot S! Maggin, Steve Englehart and Tom Defalco as writers before the series ended. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
And before her, in 1971, Supergirl fought a female crimeboss named Starfire who was a bit controversial!
(Just to be thorough!)
Once upon a time, I could have taken this opportunity to mention a post I made on the first page of the Three of a Kind thread. Following a post by Hoy Murphy that included the "swords and science" Starfire, I made a three that consisted of the Russian Starfire (later called Red Star); the Supergirl crime boss; and Princess Koriand'r.
Since the Crisis on Infinite Nings, however, all those images have disappeared from existence - at least in our universe!
Anthro had a Showcase issue immediately followed by issues 1 thru 6. Mr Wood only inked issue 6, or it might have lasted longer.
For April 4, we have the Fab Four! Not John Paul, George, and Ringo, but El, Hy, Crispy, and Polymer Polly-- a name which, curiously, precedes Polythene Pam. The stars of Dell's Super Heroes made their debut in 1967. They went nowhere, man, and the title only lasted, appropriately, four issues before reaching the end.
I actually have Super Heroes #1. Speaking of Polythene Pam, I always fancied that she was Mr. Mustard's sister. But the outtake refers to "his sister Shirley" so now I don'tknow what to think. And who is the Walrus?
As recorded, I assume that "his sister Pam" must be Polythene Pam. Someone posting as "Tato" has a clever interpretation of the Abbey Road Medley here, I realize that it was the Beatles messing about with song bits, but his interpretation makes some kind of sense.
As for the Walrus, here's another clue for you all.....
As recorded, I assume that "his sister Pam" must be Polythene Pam.
Oh, I agree completely. ("Shirley" was the "rough draft" that never made it to "print.")
Someone posting as "Tato" has a clever interpretation of the Abbey Road Medley here
A clever interpretation, indeed. It doesn't jibe with my own, exactly (virtually everyone of a certain age has one), but a perfectly cromulent interpretation nonetheless.
As for the Walrus, here's another clue for you all.....
I can't help but think that that is a false clue. For one thing, it's John's song and he is singing lead vocal; for another, if you look at the VIDEO, John is clearly the one wearing the Walrus costume; finally, in God John sings: "I was the dream weaver, but now I'm reborn; I was the walrus, but now I am John."
I can't help but think that that is a false clue.
I'm not even certain it rises to the status of clue:
I threw the line in—"the Walrus was Paul"—just to confuse everybody a bit more. ... I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledygook about Pepper—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that.--John Lennon
More of a joke, really, referencing a song that was already playful nonsense.
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