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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The name "Rainbow Raiders" certainly has been used a lot, hasn't it?
Here's a cover with the Bifrost on it. I got a hunch we're gonna see a lot of Bifrost this month.
I have a hunch your hunch is correct.
Bifrost is one of those words that, having only read it, I mispronunced until I heard it in a Marvel movie. The list of such words, I'm afraid, is rather lengthy.
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How is it pronounced in the MCU? (Before you even tell me, I wouldn't necessarily assume that they way it's pronounced there is correct. Look at how many different "official" pronunciations DC has for "Ra's al Ghul" on the big and small screen.)
The actors pronounced Ra's al Ghul three different ways in one show. You'd think the director would -- direct -- them all to say it the same way.
Ideally, Bifrost would be colored pink, purple, and blue.
The Chemical King story from Secret Origins #47 (F'90) was the first time there was any suggestion of an attraction between him and Invisible Kid. This was more apparent in the Post-Zero Hour Legion when Invisible Kid had a relationship with reporter Condo Arlik (CK's real name).
Of course, nothing like that was implied at all in the Silver/Bronze Age books as the two rarely were seen together and Chemical King had no reaction (science pun!) to Invisible Kid's death! TBH, none of the Legionnaires reacted after Lyle Notg's demise!
Richie Rich Fortunes #36, Sept 1977.
A certain number seems to be suggested in the artwork.
By Star Trek's time, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are more widely accepted as Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, although a rainbow is usually either an atmospheric phenomeon or a special effect. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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