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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Astro City #16 and "52" week 16
He's been appearing in strips and other comics since the early 90s, but his self-titled comic series only lasted four issues:
It won an Eisner for best new series, but did not last.
From the pages of the Legion to the present! 15 issues is about the extent of a "short" series to me. At the time, I was a faithful reader of the Legion, but I just didn;t get into Karate Kid as a solo act. I got a few of these, but they didn't set me on fire. Now, if Sun Boy had received his own series, that could have been different.
HAPPY DAYS the TV series lasted eleven seasons! The Gold Key/Western comic book only had SIX issues! DC or Archie should have had the license!
Moon Girl ran for six issues in 1947/9. According to Comic Book Plus, Moon Girl was E.C.'s only superhero. The comics were drawn and inked by Sheldon Moldoff. 'Moon Girl was published by Max Gaines, who had been the first publisher of Wonder Woman. By 1947, apparently regretting that he had let the amazing Amazon go to National Comics, he felt the need to once more produce a myth-inspired super-heroine. I saw the connection when I saw Moon Girl's leggings.'
EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl has been solicited for July 1 release.
Comico licensed Jonny Quest and produced a memorable 31 issue series in the late 1980s. Show creator Doug Wildey got a three issue miniseries to illustrate some of his favorite adventures from the original TV series. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I absolutely cherish this series. It was initially meant to be a maxiseries, and each of the first 13 issues had a different art team. But with issue 14, it kept going with the regular art team of Marc Hempel and Mark Wheatley (with a few exceptions).
In addition, there was a companion three-issue miniseries featuring femme fatale Jezebel Jade, two Jonny Quest Specials, and a three-issue Jonny Quest Classics miniseries written and drawn by series creator Doug Wildey that adapts key episodes from the TV series! I have them all, but I wish someone would collect these for the fans who don't!
I'll agree with the collection idea Clark. Dynamite has the Quest comic book license at the moment while overall Warner Brothers still owns all the Hanna-Barbera properties, as well as DC Comics. Hopefully there will be a collection somewhere, somehow, someday.
I bought the Camelot 3000 12-issue limited series (dated December 1982 to April 1985) as it came out. The delay between issues became agonising as it slipped from monthly to once every three or four months, with a wait of nine months to be endured before the final issue. But it was worth it!
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