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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Josie McCoy gets possessed by the evil spirit of Alexandra Cabot's ancestor and must be exorcized! This was in 1973 so The Exorcist was in theaters and the book was out in 1971.
In an amazing coincidence (?), Marvel's exorcist, Damien Hellstrom, the Son of Satan would debut around the same time!
Lois Lane - Menace!
How come menaces in Superman's time actually had Kryptonite vision (and don't forget Titano the Super Ape), while the Legion of Superheroes had to rely on Kryptonite rings? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Action Comics #17. That looks like a World War One tank.
Is there really a mystery here?
Members of the JLA are turned into menaces by "The Plague That Struck the Justice League":
This is the issue including the following infamous scene:
This follow-up to my post from yesterday concludes the story, with a truly ridiculous and convoluted explanation for events:
"It's not really magic! It's the heat from his X-ray vision!"
The other day, Cap noted at another thread that "it's funny how characters in these stories are always pooh-poohing 'pagan superstition' and the like, when magic demonstrably exists in this world." In this story, they denounce superstition even though the actual explanation for events involves magic, just not witches. Perhaps they didn't want to suggest that the Salem executions were justified. The second part also identifies the town as Salem, though that pub in the background suggests that we might be in colonial Collinsport. Of course, the story places us during the American Revolution, which makes absolutely no sense. Will some storyteller in the future have hippies during the Second World War concerned about the election of Donald Trump?
Hippies in WW2. That would be Oddball in Kelly's Heroes
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