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.
Replies
I read these in an Archie digest years back!
He was even mentioned in the Archie Encyclopedia!
Two from Fawcett: Captain Marvel #16 and Bulletman's last issue.
Atom-Age Combat ran for two issues cover dated 1959
Apart from a few appearances in supporting stories, four issues of Mr. and Mrs. J. Evil Scientist appeared around Halloween, between 1963-1966. They had first appeared in a couple of Hanna-Barbera animated cartoons in the late 1950s. The Evil Scientists soon fell into obscurity. Scott Shaw claims that, when he mentioned them to Hanna and Barbera in an interview, not even they remembered them.
I wrote an account of their history here. Hopefully the site is not experiencing problems today. This is one I should repost at my writer's blog some October.
They seem like they were modeled on Morticia and Gomez Addams, or maybe those characters have become archetypes. Because Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale seem like they owe a debt to Morticia and Gomez, too, although Wiki says they also owe one to Boris Drubetskoy and Natasha Rostova in Tolstoy’s War and Peace. (Also, it says, Badenov is a play on Tsar Boris Godunov, although "Badenov" is a good enough pun that I'd think you could come up with it without knowing any Russian history.)
Regardless, I'd argue Mrs. Scientist raided Carolyn Jones' closet for that dress.
Yes. As I note in the linked piece, there's no question that they took inspiration from the Addams cartoons in the New Yorker-- though, of course, neither "Morticia" nor "Gomez" had been named yet.
Harvey had a Popeye series that ran for seven iussues.
From Ajax-Farrell in 1957-8 came just four issues of 'Strange Journey'. Cover art is credited to 'Igor Shop' which I presume is just a studio name. I'm impressed by the drawing of the train.
“Igor Shop” sparked my curiosity. This is a misspelling. In issue #3 it reads “Iger Shop.” In the early days of comic books, a “shop” would be a comic book packager (a bullpen) that produced comic book content that they would sell in finished form to multiple publishers. As you said, a studio. In this case, the Iger Shop came out of the Eisner & Iger Shop after Will Eisner went on his own.
Eisner & Iger - Wikipedia
Sorry I missed yesterday, couldn't be helped, so it's double feature time again. The aforementioned Cancelled Comic Cavalcade ran only two issues internally within the DC offices to maintain copyrights post DC Implosion. Some of the material has been reprinted between regular issues and collections over the years but collectors still seek their own copies of these ash cans even today. The full contents of both can be found within this Wikipedia entry. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
-
2774
-
2775
-
2776
-
2777
-
2778
of 2779 Next