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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I think it's fair to say that Jimmy Olsen was a menace for most of his life. Especially to his so-called best pal. Two covers as I was away yesterday.
And SuperExpositionman doesn't help by being not the least bit suspicious about the presence of lead-lined curtains.
Couldn't help missing yesterday and I'm barely making it in time tonight for a double feature. Sometimes outside influence(s) make the hero(es) menace(s). Since I have never had the opportunity to read the stories, in this case Queen Bee only seems to have one trick up her sleeve and why the Justice League falls for it both times is beyond me. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Okay, it's after midnight Eastern Daylight Time, so I'm going to post my Friday cover before calling it a night. It might be a trope, but sometimes hero versus their doppleganger/mirror universe counterpart/whatever can be an interesting story. Like this Mike W. Barr/Michael Golden adventure. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Unexpected #17. Another Jack Adler wash effort over the pencils and inks of Ruben Moreira.
The last time for a while Ben lost control. This time the result of Reed giving him the ability to transform at will, but of course it affected his mental state. I think it was after this Reed concluded Ben didn't really want to change because subconsciously Ben believes Alicia wants him as the Thing not Ben.
Sometimes it's one Thing after another:
Here's the time he became a menace to everyone, including himself. This was in the seventies (cover date November 1973), as is made obvious by Jimmy's flares.
I've never read this but I can only conclude that if GL is being 'Power-ringed to death', he must have been a bit of a menace. Is 'power-ringed' actually a verb?
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