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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What a problematic title. "Cancelled" is the English spelling; in America it's "Canceled." So I often get that wrong. And they opted for the singular, "Comic," instead of the usual "Comics." In that case, there's precedent: The title is based on Comic Cavalcade, an All-American title that ran 63 issues (1942-1954). The first 29 issues offered individual stories starring Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, AA's three biggest stars, which didn't change even when M.C. Gaines sold out to DC in 1946. With issue #30 (late 1948), it went funny animal. I don't know why Comic Cavalcade was singular, but it was, and now Cancelled Comic Cavalcade is, too.
The main headliner of Comic Cavalcade in its funny-animal phase was "Fox and Crow." DC spun that strip into its own title in 1951, but they remained the headliner of Comic Cavalcade until its cancellation in 1954. Sort of like Superman graduating to his own solo title, but remaining the headliner of Action.
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What a problematic title. "Cancelled" is the English spelling; in America it's "Canceled." So I often get that wrong.
I was once the runner-up in my elementary school’s spelling bee, when I had nothing else cluttering up my brain. “Canceled” is one of several words that I can never get right without Spell Check. That saves me unless it suggests something I know is wrong. This is nothing to do with being born in England. All of my schooling has been in the U.S.
The main headliner of Comic Cavalcade in its funny-animal phase was "Fox and Crow." DC spun that strip into its own title in 1951, but they remained the headliner of Comic Cavalcade until its cancellation in 1954.
The Fox and Crow title was probably my first DC comic, back when I only was reading funny animals. These and the Dell Disney books were my start, soon following by the Superman family in 1958.
Black Lightning ran for eleven issues from April 1977 to August 1978. Issues #1 to #9 had a frequency of seven times yearly, then it was promoted to bi-monthly for two issues before its abrupt cancellation. As with Claw the Unconquered, a final issue appeared in Cancelled Comics Cavalcade.
All-Out War was an all-new Dollar Comic from 1979-80 that starred the Viking Commando, Black Eagle and Force 3 that lasted six issues.
This was another series that I hunted around for. I never found #6!
Thorr and Metallo, just not the ones you're thinking of.
Two issues from 1969
It didn't know there had been an Ellery Queen comic book, until I stumbled over a copy of this one at a convention. The cover certainly suggests that comic-book Ellery had more fantastic adventures than his counterparts in other media. This is somewhat misleading.
Dell's series lasted three issues-- far fewer issues than the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
Ellery Queen was usually a feature within other magazines but didn't often get the cover, let alone his own series. And Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is still going strong at over 1000 issues as of this year.
Hanna-Barbera had a seven issue run for Super TV Heroes. I got most of 'em from back issue boxes.. Great fun!
Sonic Disruptors: the legendary twelve-issue maxiseries that got canceled with #7!
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