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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The show was, in many respects, ahead of the curve. Dell's comic series lasted four issues.
MAD magazine once referred to actors such as Lloyd Haynes and Denise Nicholas as "TV negro."
DC's Timber Wolf ran five issues. Of the whole Legion, I can't see Timber Wolf being the one to get a solo series. Maybe Ultra Boy, or Cosmic Boy, or even Bouncing Boy if a funny series was desired. I guess Wolverine-itis hit EVERYBODY sooner or later.
Between 1974 and 1977, there were several Sherlock Holmes movies and TV movies being made so both DC and Marvel briefly considered doing Holmes comic books. Marvel's were in its black & white magazines and DC published this one-shot, best known for its Walt Simonson cover.
Ragman: five bi-monthly issues from September 1976 to July 1977, with a hiatus of a couple of months before the final issue.
Archie Comics published a comic book series based on The Adventures of Bayou Billy written by Rich Margopoulos and illustrated by Amanda Conner, which lasted five bi-monthly issues dated from September 1989 to June 1990. The comic takes liberties with the plot and characterizations of the game and introduces an additional cast of supporting characters.
Wrap around covers aren't used very often because publishers prefer to have the back cover advertising revenue despite the fact that no comic has ever sold well based on a back cover ad. In any event, when the artist(s) can do a larger cover, the results can be quite spectacular, like the wrap around cover for the first issue of the original Crisis On Infinite Earths by George Perez. The 12 issue 50th anniversary mini-series was quite earth shattering and the DC Universe(s) have never been the same since. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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House of Mystery #16 (pre-Code) and House of Secrets #16 (post-Code)
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