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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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.
Here's what Steve Englehart says about it:
Millennium spawned a new series starring the heroes created therein. It was supposed to be an advance in comics comparable to Coyote - the next step in a more realistic approach to superheroes - and to that end I got a promise from the highest powers at DC that I could do sex, drugs, and politics, unhindered.
I put all those into the first issue and they were taken out. I went to the man who'd given me the promise and he reneged. So I walked away.
But my insistance on including a gay hero, first in MILLENNIUM and then here, paid off down the line when DC founded a sub-line called Milestone and allowed it to use gay issues with no interference from above.
JD mentioned a local group called the Rainbow Raiders yesterday. There is also a Flash Villain (singular) by that name. While his costume isn't shown on the cover, it does sport a rainbow. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
It seems that Betty's mum gave away a rainbow top in 1976...
Action Comics #89, "The King of Color," from way back in 1945.
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The in-story explanation for the cover, of course, is ridiculous.
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