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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Looks like I found the inspiration for Boris the Bear's occasional co-star, Wacky Squirrel.
Missed yesterday so it's double feature time again. Unlike the 1961-1965 television series, the first comic book called The Defenders (a father and son lawyer team and no relation to anything from Marvel) only lasted two issues. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
"Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub" from ACG ran for seven issues from July 1954 to August 1955. Interesting to note that issue 1 doesn't carry the Comics Code stamp, whereas issue 7 does. So the series ran both pre and post the Wertham trial.
Peter’s post of Nutsy Squirrel earlier today also straddled the Code before and after.
Justice League #16 and Atom #16
Another evil keyboardist.
Mighty Crusaders ran for 7 issues (1965-1966)
I would pick these up when I saw them, which was pretty hit and miss. So was the comic. Gold Key ran 13 issues between 1968 and 1977. It includes both imaginative recreations of reported accounts and stuff the writers just made up.
Logan's Run started as a comic book adaptation of the movie, but the world of Logan's run continued through issue 7.
That's a book I think I'd like to look in on. When I'd read a couple issues as a kid, I hadn't seen the movie yet.
(Unsurprisingly, it's not on Marvel Universe ... but the addition of series like Old Man Logan make it harder to search for.)
I used to watch the television show... before I had seen the movie. The movie wasn't all that good (objectively speaking, although I liked it at the time), but it was far better than the TV series. It starred Michael York (whom I knew as D'Artagnan from The Three Musketeers) and nigh legendary among my social set for featuring Farrah Fawcett-Majors in her pre-Charlie's Angels days (who was in, like, one scene).
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