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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The last three issues were from 1957 and numbered 1-3.
I was startled to see the amount of comment generated by my posting of DC's Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners. I vaguely recognise his name, but I couldn't tell you anything about him. I didn't even know that The Honeymooners was a TV sitcom until yesterday's comments caused me to look it up on Wikipedia, which tells me that it has been broadcast in the UK, even if I never saw it.
Anyway, before the DC series, there was another Jackie Gleason comic. This was published by St John, with four monthly issues from September to December 1955.
Casper #16 and Hot Stuff #16
I posted Geeksville the other day, which continued the runs of both The 3 Geeks and Innocent Bystander. Here are a far less likeable, but highly entertaining, group of nerdish fanboys:
A fannish Valentine this is not. This toxic bunch of a-sholes appeared in eleven comics, though only two were self-titled. I heartily recommend the complete collection. It's savage, brutal, hilarious, and something every fan should probably read.
Five issues in the middle 1980s
SKULL THE SLAYER lasted eight issues between 1975-77 and ended in a cliffhanger. It went where all cancelled series went, to the team up books! In this case, Marvel Two-In-One #35 (Ja'78) where Skull's story ended for years until he reappeared as the new Blazing Skull as part of Doctor Druid's Shock Troop in Quasar #45 (Ap'93).
The only issue I had for a long time was #5 because it guest-starred the original Black Knight! Spoiler Alert: it wasn't really him!
For discussion see HERE.
Nutsy Squirrel ran for twelve mostly bi-monthly issues from October 1954 to November 1957. The issues were numbered #61 to #72, the numbering continuing from an earlier and longer series, Hollywood Funny Folks. It was mostly bi-monthly, though with gaps in publication after #69 and #71.
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