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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I have a couple Unearthly Spectaculars. (I remember the Tiger-Boy one distinctly.) I don't think I have any Race for the Moon.
This is a pretty memorable cover, but I don't remember the story!
Continuing from my post yesterday...
Roy Thomas revived the Secret Origins title to cover all the changes that the original Crisis On Infinite Earths wrought. While that series lasted 50 issues, another revival to cover all The New 52 changes only lasted 11. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I first saw this version of the Black Hood in a THUNDER Agents b&w magazine and I enjoyed its three issue run with Red Circle/Archie. It had wonderful art by Gray Marrow with the Fox in #2-3 by Alex Toth!
This Black Hood appeared in Mighty Crusaders until they put him back in his Golden Age outfit, had him constantly smoke cigars and try to act like Wolverine!
Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners: twelve bi-monthly issues, running from July 1956 to May 1958.
They sure turned Alice into a pin-up!
She can do better than Ralph!
Jackie Gleason thought so! He almost didn't cast Audrey Meadows as Alice because he thought that she was too glamorous!
My answer to latter day outrage about Ralph threatening to hit Alice:
1) He never would because he truly loves her
2) If he ever did, she would kill him
One episode had Alice play a trick on Ralph and he said something like "For the first time in my life, I'm gonna beat you up!" which he didn't.
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