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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On weekends, I try to have some fun with the monthly theme whenever possible. Like the Care Bears and the Cabbage Patch Kids, she has been around since the 1980s. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
So Destiny is 1) no longer old and 2) no longer dead and 3) no longer cremated.
(Sorry, I will not accept that she is the "real" Irene Adler", THE Woman of Sherlock Holmes!)
So will this marriage last longer than Tony Stark and Emma Frost's?
Another X-Men marriage cover.This was from X (Twitter).
Join the X-Men as they come together to honor one of the most beloved and longest-lasting gay couples in comic book history, Mystique and Destiny! Cover art by @Janbazaldua67
Hulk #267
Not many series with "eighteen" in the title.
Timely Gay Comics ran from 1944-1949. It gave readers Tessie the Typist, Millie the Model, a G.I. named Skidsey, assorted funny kid and funny animal features, attempts to cash in on Archie's success, and a fair bit of the racial-stereotype-as-humour that often appears in the pop culture of the time. It also boasted a couple of covers that.... were.... problematic, especially given that the use of "gay" to mean homosexual goes back at least to 1890, though that meaning was not recorded in the dictionary until the 1950s and it was not mainstreamed until later.
And look! A guy in a whoopie cap who isn't Jughead!
Hey, one of those guys even went viral a little over a decade ago:
I looked up Gay Comics and found that it began withh issue #18 (GCD doesn't say why) and that the early issues had a lot of Wolverton humor strips plus Kurtzman's "Hey Look!".
According to THIS, Gay Comics was previously Funny Tunes, but I don't believe that's true because Funny Tunes continued beyond #17 with no break in publication. Actually, Gay Comics seems to have begun with issue #1, then continued with #18 a month later. Funky numbering is definitely not just a 21st century phenomenon.
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