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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There was also supposed to be Western Classics that was never published.
And there was Battle Classics which I was shocked to find in my long boxes a few years back. I have no memory of getting it!
Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood: nine bi-monthly issues, from April 1949 to August 1950. According to the GCD:
At the start of the week (14th April, page 2781), I posted the short-lived series The Adventures of Alan Ladd, and in the first issue of today's series, "Beverly meets Alan Ladd". It's a crossover!
Nobody can beat Charlton for the sheer number of short-lived series. Just looking through the 1950s I've counted over 60 short lived series with less than 12 consecutive issues. Looking through them I'm more than impressed by "Inspector Farnsworth of Scotland Yard". The covers alone are enough to make me purchase the mag, although mystery surrounds the cover artist, with some suggesting Alex Toth as the possible penciler, others suggesting Giordano and/or Vince Alascia.
Spider-Man #16 was the first meeting of Spidey and Daredevil and my first meeting with the Ringmaster, who first appeared in Hulk #3. Daredevil was the only one that the Ringmaster couldn't hypnotize.
Gold Key managed eight issues* of Tragg and Sky Gods, Donald F. Glut's take on Chariots of the Gods. Some scantily-clad aliens who looked uncomfortably like Asian club kids modified a couple of Neanderthals and produced the ancestors of the current human race. The presence of dinosaurs was accounted for because, apparently, "there were certain isolated areas on this unspoiled world where conditions permitted the survival of the ancient reptiles."
It crossed over twice with Dagar the Invincible, once through time-travel and the other through surviving artifacts.
*#9 was a reprint of #1.
Archie Adventure series' Steel Sterling, Man of Steel, ran 7 issues. There was one issue, #3 from Red Circle, that was Shield Steel Sterling. What about issues 1 and 2? They seem to be Lancelot Strong the Shield. It's hard to track though, and I may need to wait for Commander Benson to do a Deck Log on the Mighty Crusaders comics.
#1-2 were indeed Lancelot Strong the Shield. He was killed off in Shield/Steel Sterling #3 and dropped from Mighty Crusaders as Archie would focus on the Original Shield.
The Double Life of Private Strong #2, featuring the Private Lancelot Strong version of The Shield, went on sale just in time for my 11th birthday. I finally read issue #1 a couple of years ago, as a reprint. It was my first exposure to Joe Simon’s art. I was surprised to learn that Archie (briefly) used the character again in 1983. Not being around for the Golden Age Shield and not caring for the Mighty Crusaders, he will always be “my” Shield.
It's the weekend, so time for a little fun. The Hanna-Barbera properties have been licensed by several companies over the years, like this attempt that lasted 8 issues with different stars featured in each. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Fawcett were not far behind Charlton in short-lived series. They had at least 40 in the 40s alone. One of them was "Ibis The Invincible" which ran for six issues. Covers were drawn and inked by the late, great Kurt Schaffenberger, who went on to even greater prominence with Captain Marvel and Lois Lane.
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