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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As I said before, Archie killed off Lancelot Strong in favor of the Original Shield as Red Circle became the Archie Adventure line. It didn't matter as his book lasted only four issues in 1984. They hoped to modernize the Golden Ager but he made Captain America look hip!
Nice Rudy Nebres art in this cover.
Miss Melody Lane of Broadway: three bi-monthly issues, from March to July 1950. According to the GCD:
This seems to have been a comic that was very similar to Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood, which I posted yesterday, but even more short-lived.
Mixing photos and comic book artwork never looks right to me. Even when Kirby did it!
I wasn't crazy about Kirby's Photo-covers either.
It's a relief to know I'm not alone in this corner!
Challengers of the Unknown #16 and Showcase #16, the second and last tryout for Space Ranger.
Both with covers by Bob Brown
And when Brown re-designed the Challs uniforms a few years later he borrowed heavily from his earlier Space Ranger design.
Spire, which published those surreal comics where Archie and the gang are hardline evangelical Christians, also put out nine issues of Barney Bear, for very young readers.The band in the background brings to mind Disney's old Country Bear Jamboree.
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