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 posted Too Much Coffee Man the other day. Here's a short-lived '70s series that might suit those for whom coffee isn't strong enough:
Sword of the Atom ran for four issues and three specials when DC was trying to do something clever with the Atom.
Lars of Mars (published by Ziff-Davis) only made two appearances in comic-books (apart from a brief 3D version in the late 80s). This was in Lars of Mars #10 and LoM #11 published in April and August of 1951. No one seems to know why the numbering started at 10 but there was definitely no 1 to 9. He was created by Gerry Siegel and allegedly drawn by Murphy Anderson. The comments on CB+ are hilarious so I'm reproducing them here, attributed to Baldy51 and Andrew999.
"Nice Cover (referring to #10). And if you look closely. Lars seems to have solved the "scorched bottom" problem inherent in many comic book jet packs. Gene Colan’s Captain Brady and his sidekick, Buzzy, provide some airborne action as they battle a sky pirate over a new widget of a metal. Then it’s back to Lars who’s now ready to battle the Terror from the Skies! Laughable now to look back on these bizarre ‘red scare’ stories from the fifties with the Americans fearing any nation which has a free healthcare system, student grants, a national investment policy and subsidised housing – so glad we’ve all moved on from that…."
Lars of Mars rides cars to bars where he drinks from jars with rugged tars and wrestles gars and contracts SARS.
Does he golf with czars and strive for all pars?
And now he only eats guitars....
I love all of Blondie's songs. Thanks for the video!
The Heckler: six monthly issues, from September 1992 to February 1993.
THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS had four TV movies and a single season from 1977-78 and the Marvel comic lasted seven issues in 1978 with some neat Frank Robbins art. Sadly it ended on a cliffhanger which could never be resolved!
This cover... John Buscema with Joe Sinnot inks, I assume. Such a beautiful combination. (I just checked and that precisely who the cover art team was).
Both artists are very talented and have distinctive styles that mesh well rather well indeed.
Too bad that the art team changed entirely for the rest of the run. Instead of Buscema-Sinnot we get Ernie Chan (talented, but still). And while the interiors of #1 are by Tom Sutton, #2-6 have Frank Robbins pencils. I liked his work on Invaders, but he is an acquired taste at best and was not a good fit for this character, who is considerably cautious and reasonable by nature. Frank Robbins has a way to draw everyone as if constantly in mid-action and in a hurry.
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