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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Almost didn't make it today. Sometimes you're a menace through circumstances beyond your control. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
It's after midnight Eastern Daylight time where I live, so here's my Thursday cover before I go to bed. Superman has fought many super villains over the course of his career (to date), but he certainly wasn't expeting this menace. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Star Spangled #17 and Black Cat Western #17
Death Valley is driving distance from me. There aren't any bridges over water or cliffs. It's pretty flat and when it does get rain, it floods..
Another Superbaby being a super-menace:
This has one of the most bat-guano Superbaby plots ever, complicated by the fact that it's told to Superboy in flashbacks, and the editor has to remind us that the Kents look older in the past than they are now because of that bizarre youth serum plot.
Reading the synopsis, this sounds like it was canon at the time. How did Superbaby stay a secret? Good thing he reeaallyy liked Ma Kent's pancakes!
Oh, you know the old explanation. "A baby... flying! Carrying a car! It - uh - must be an illusion! Sunspots or a weather balloon!"
Here's one more example of the "member of the public as (unintentional?) menace" theme.
And I think it's time to start thinking of future cover themes. Head over here with suggestions and nominations.
The Battle-Axis from the 1993 Invaders mini (Doctor Death/Doctor Nemesis, the Human Meteor, Spider Queen, Strongman and Volton) were all Public Domain Golden Age superheroes from various companies who were now working for the Nazis!
Originally meant to be comprised of very minor Timely characters, Marvel had second thoughts and went with these guys!
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