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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Issue #3 of Foreskin Man, a bizarre, controversial, and entirely serious comic put out by an anti-circumcision artist and writer. This one introduces Vulva Girl, who opposes FGM (equating these causes strikes me as problematic, to say the least). It lasted six issues.
Like Jack Chick's Crusader Comics, you have to read these to believe them.
This reminds me of a story I recently read in The Bible (1 Samuel 18:17-27):
1 Samuel 18 describes a critical turning point in the relationship between Saul and David. After David’s victory over Goliath, Saul grows jealous of David’s rising popularity (1 Samuel 18:5-9). In verses 17-27, Saul offers his daughter Michal to David in marriage on one condition: David must bring back one hundred Philistine foreskins as a bride price. Instead of being deterred, David accomplishes the task and even exceeds the required number (1 Samuel 18:27).
I wonder what Foreskin Man would have to say about that.
Ultraforce ran 10 issues. It was kind of a crossover with Marvel... kinda.
Three more Water themed series
from 1994
11 issues from 1962-1965 (including one as Four Color). This is #7 which I think is a particularly nice cover.
UNCLE SAM QUARTERLY had eight issues between 1941 and 1943, then disappeared for a year and when #9 came out, the book was retitled ... Blackhawk!
From Tower Comics came Undersea Agent (Jan 1966 to Mar 1967). It ran for six issues, and introduced us to Dr Fang.
We're nearly at the end of April, so don't forget that next month's theme is "Heroes as Menaces". The original definition of the theme added "not just acting evil, but being turned into something dangerous like a monster, or radioactive or such". No doubt we'll each have our own idea of how to interpret this, and what constitutes a suitable cover!
The Elongated Man mini-series that ran for four monthly isses from January to April 1992 was a great deal of fun. Sadly, this appears to be the only solo series that Ralph ever had!
DC established long ago that their hereos try to clean up from their fights whenever possible, which made the concept for this group of Marvel mini-series (there were at least two that I remember) interesting. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I fondly remember FOUR STAR SPECTACULAR, a reprint series from late 1975-1976 that sadly lasted six issues. After the first issue, the page count dropped so they had to use team-ups mostly to get their four heroes.
Every issue had Silver Age Superboy and Golden/Silver Age Wonder Woman stories plus:
#1-Hawkman (wonderful Murphy Anderson art) and The Original Flash (a Golden Age story completely redrawn) Got this one for Christmas 1975!
#2-Kid Flash & Elongated Man (teamup)
#3-Supergirl (with Superboy) and Green Lantern
#4-Hawkman & Hawkgirl
#5-The Vigilante and Green Arrow (both from the 1950s)
#6-Krypto the Superdog (with Superboy) and Blackhawk (from 1946!) plus a Golden Age Etta Candy backup!
My transition cover* is Hourman #16, in which Hourman tries to help Snapper Carr ("Super Traitor") reconcile with the JLA he betrayed by helping a disguised Joker almost kill them in JLA #77. (* I thought this was a transition cover until I read Peter's clarification on the May theme.)
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