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 remember reading this as a child too young to have the words, but I thought the design of the Kryptonian flag was just plain bad. I was too young to even have a concept that "design" was a thing. I just thought it had too many colors, arranged in have-to-memorize-it sort of way, and that having a planet in the middle -- that could be any planet to a non-Kryptonian race seeing it the first time -- was too non-specific and irrelevant. There should be a color scheme, not random colors, and symbol that represents Kryptonian culture or hopes instead of a random (to those who wouldn't recogize the continents) planet. Again, I was too young to even begin to articulate these thoughts as they flitted through my head. I just pronounced it "bad."
Also, Legionnaires carrying weapons is kinda dopey in cases like Element Lad, who could beat an army of non-powered soldiers all by himself with basically a wave of his hands. Did the story explain that? I don't remember. But from where he is on the cover, he could turn all the weapns in the trench to helium. Or, if he was in a bad mood, radioactive cesium.
Which is basically what happened in Action Comics #391.
Given Aurora's mental state, Northstar is right to be concerned!
Too bad he was so obnoxious and arrogant himself!
Let's see if this works as a transition. Good guys as menaces? Check. Rainbow? Check.
Captain Marvel #18. First appearance of Mary Marvel.
Too easy...
Though created with good intentions, Extrano of the New Guardians was not only a flamboyant gay man, he was a lonely gay man. However, editorial did not want a gay character in the late 80s and wanted him "cured". He would die from HIV, contracted from a battle with an "AIDS vampire".
Later he would return in 2020s, married to the Tasmanian Devil, the Australian hero, not the Looney Tune!
I am so stunned by how wrong-headed the implementation of this character was, starting with the name "Extraño," which is Spanish for "strange." Then they load him down with a boatload of gay stereotypes. It's like they were trying to be as offensive as possible in every way.
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