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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Was this the same Barney Bear of MGM cartoons or a different animal?
Different Barneys. They each had their bear to cross.
Ohhh! An Easter-themed pun! Congratulations!
Eight issues from 1963 to 1965
JLA Year One was a 12 issue Maxi-series, but I'm sure JLA Year 2 was ready to be scheduled... it was DC's way.
Published by Premier Magazines, Masked Ranger ran for 9 issues, from April '54 to August '55. It would appear that the magazine's demise was predestined, since it clearly says "Read The Death of the Masked Ranger" on the cover of the 9th issue.
HAPPY/HOPPY EASTER EVERYBODY! When Marvel had the Hanna-Barbera license in the mid 1970s (around the time of the Laff-a-lympics) they even did tabloid size specials. While some consider those individual entities, the series had the umbrella title The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera and lasted 3 issues, as indicated by the cover numbering. The other two were The Flintstones' Christmas Party the previous December and the aforementioned Laff-a-lympics that summer. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Yogi's frogs must be Kryptonian.
Bomba the Jungle Boy: seven bi-monthly issues, October 1967 to October 1968.
Dangit! I was going to use Bomba #1 today!
Seriously, I saw ads for it in comics at the time and I definitely would have bought!
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