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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This beloved monstrosity had a long run in comics, but his 1990s revival only lasted nine issues.
The Untold Legend of the Batman ran 3 issues.
Still underwater. Six issues from 1966 to 1967.
Dr. Fang appears to be the love child of the stock racist depiction of an Asian person and Alfred E. Neuman.
Just like the Creeper, THE HAWK AND THE DOVE appeared in one issue of Showcase then straight to their own book very quickly. I suppose DC was hoping that Steve Ditko would bring some of Spider-Man's success with him but like the Creeper, he left the book abruptly and it lasted a mere six issues in 1968-69.
Even a brief stint in Teen Titans couldn't hide the fact that these two had expiration dates that were fast approaching.
I must admit that I found the Hall Brothers annoying and that both sides of the "Hawk/Dove" debate wouldn't want them around!
Millie the Lovable Monster (Dell) ran for six issues, from Sept 1962 to Jan 1973 (there was a slight gap between 1964 and 1972). All issues were drawn, inked and lettered by Bill Woggon, who presumably got so fed up with the whole thing he went on an eight year holiday in the mid sixties.
Another DC reprint series from the early 1970s. It only went 9 issues but a tenth was included in the more recently released collection of the series. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
It should have stayed a Giant series!
The 20 cent reference is because DC had just ended their 52 pages (new material and reprints in each issue) across the entire line format and reduced back to the standard 32 page format while reducing the price. The 100 page specials would start soon after, but that's another story.
Wanted became a series because of the sales of two issues of the 52 page DC Special. The extra pages allowed for longer Silver Age stories. The 20 cent size meant more Golden Age stories with not the best villains.
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