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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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.
It was so amazingly bad, one wonders what the thinking was. "We must make sure the readers know he's gay," maybe. Or "This is what gay people are like," maybe. I really can't imagine. I don't think professionals would deliberately offend any part of the audience, but Extraño, I think, managed to offend everybody.
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