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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Another title appearing in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade after falling victim to the DC Comics implosion was Steel, the Indestructible Man, which lasted 5 issues from March to November 1978.
By the way, thanks to Lee for the Wikipedia link, and to Cap for correcting the name (Comic, not Comics) and pointing out the surprising spelling (Cancelled, not Canceled) that I, as a Brit, hadn't noticed.
What was going to be Steel #6 was used in All-Star Squadron #8-9 (Ap-My'82) which put the Indestructible Man on Earth-Two, and I always thought that was a mistake!
I guess it made sense at the time, to fold Steel's wartime adventures into an ongoing title that was also set during WWII. For my part, having enjoyed the first few issues of Steel (though I don't think I saw the final one), I was pleased to see him again when he popped up in All-Star Squadron.
Here's Hanna-Barbera's other super hero comic, Hi Adventures. This was just two issues!
Thanks to all for the info on 'Igor' (or Iger) Shop. Very interesting.
More Golden-Age short series from me. From ACG in 1952 - 'Skeleton Hand' ran to just six issues.
For April 12, Adam-12, who clearly don't want to be out-done by Ellery Queen:
I watched the show a bit when I was a kid (mostly in its early seasons) but I don't recall seeing the comic. It lasted ten issues.
Superman #16 and World's Finest #16
Even the pigeons are being respectful.
Johnny Thunder (no, not the one with the Thunderbolt) was an ongoing series reprinting tales of various DC Western heroes. It lasted for three issues, from February to August 1973.
Love those Alex Toth covers!
This Johnny Thunder was introduced in August 1948, whereas the previous Johnny Thunder (the one with the Thunderbolt) had made his last Golden Age appearance in Flash Comics about eight months earlier. (He was replaced by Black Canary, who was still appearing in his place in both Flash Comics and All-Star Comics.) So there was no overlap. And DC was smart enough to put the new Johnny in a different book, just in case there was brand loyalty. Johnny Thunder, Western version, premiered along with the host title's name change in All-American Western #100.
Only one issue. Cover date December 1971. Len Wein and Jack Sparling
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