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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Sometimes menaces lurk in unexpected places, even when you don't expect them. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
World's Finest #17
It's harder to find a Superbaby cover where he's not a menace:
So much to unpack in this last cover. So much Silver Age.
That Jimmy Olwen! He and Lois were always up to some menacing mischief!
Jimmy at 6 foot 3 doesn't seem right
You're absolutely right. I think Superman is only 6'2"...
In a amazing twist, this issue from 1942 sees the Sub-Mariner trying to stop a mind-controlled, rampaging Human Torch in a story written by Mickey Spillane, author of the Mike Hammer books!
Apparently it's ok for Jimmy to cut Supes hair, but not that menace Lois! The JO cover appeared in April 68, and the LL cover in Jan 70. Both drawn by Mr Swan.
Here's a couple more examples of Jimmy being a menace:
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