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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It's a good cover, but it's less-than-true. I learned from the DC Fandom site's synopsis that the last story in the book introduced Alfred before he was skinny and named Pennyworth. He's the one who discovers their identities, not a (doomed to die) crook this time.
It's federal election day in Canada, with multiple candidates vying for various positions, none of which bear the title, "Governor."
I have never watched an episode of The Governor and J.J., which ran one and one-half seasons starting in 1969 and depicted the hilarious (I guess) adventures of a conservative midwestern state governor and widower, and his hip liberal-leaning daughter J.J. I did, inexplicably, read this comic. Perhaps it came in the middle of a Gold Key 3-pack. Unlike their take on Dark Shadows and Star Trek, this one did not outlive the series, and ran for only three issues.
The election itself has been overshadowed, throughout by the question of who can best deal with the guy to the south, and, yesterday, by the horror in Vancouver.
Three more short-lived water based "series." All from Four Color.
A cigarette smoking fish, well what do know? Dell did publish a second issue of Diver Dan.
Gold Key released eight issues of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.
KORG: 70000 BC was based on the live action Saturday morning cartoon show from 1974-75. The Charlton comic lasted seven issues from 1975-76, one issue longer than DC's caveman series Tor and Kong the Untamed from the same time frame.
In a universe of superheroes and other cosmic entities, I have to give Marvel credit for trying a down to Earth female private detective. Too bad she only recieved five issues of her own series and has rarely been seen since. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Slave Girl (Avon) only managed two issues.
The New Guardians spun off from DC's Millennium event, and ran for 12 approximately-monthly issues from September 1988 to September 1989. The cover to issue #12, by Pat Broderick, reworks Joe Staton's cover to issue #1.
In 1974, Marvel gave us The Human Torch, a reprint series that featured Johnny Storm's Silver Age adventures along with the Golden Age Torch. It lasted eight issues!
They didn't try a new Human Torch book until 2003 and that one went twelve issues!
Geez, Ant-Man has a better track record!
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