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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Tales of Ghost Castle ran for three issues in 1975.
It's best known today for being the first appearance of Lucien who would become the librarian of Dream in The Sandman.
Stalker was a swords-and-sorcery series that I really liked, written by Paul Levitz and illustrated by Steve Ditko and Wally Wood, but it only lasted for four bi-monthly issues from July 1975 to January 1976 before being cancelled. The hero, Stalker, then went into comic-book limbo for two decades. He was brought back as the villain of the 1999 "The Justice Society Returns" storyline. This ran across All-Star Comics #1 and #2, and seven one-shots all published in May of that year, and gave no hint that Stalker had ever been seen before.
I remember this guy. He lived on a literal flat earth with waterfalls at the edge. I don't think they explained how that could work, which is probably just as well.
They did explain who Stalker was in All Star #1 though a footnote would have been helpful.
Since Phillip didn't follow up on his Justice Inc./The Avenger post from yesterday, after two guest appearances with Batman that have yet to be reprinted(?), DC published 12 issues of The Shadow. Dennis O'Neil wrote them all and art was mostly Michael Kaluta with Frank Robbins and E. R. Cruz filling in towards the end. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Is twelve issues too much? Did we decide on a cut-off point?
To quote myself on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics":
I think Michael Uslan wrote issues #9 & 11
The Grand Comics Database agrees with you about Michael Uslan writing 9 and 11 Dave. In my defense, I'm only human and working from memory most of the time.
Lois Lane #16 and Jimmy Olsen #16
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