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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Halo continued to be a member after Batman left (the first time) and The Outsiders got a solo team title. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Rainbow Girl: a very, very, VERY minor Legion Reject who appeared in one panel found her pot of gold forty-five years later!
A slightly, ever so slightly, less minor LSH universe character is Color Kid
Thor #331 is my only bifrost cover.
From the start, Runaways included queer characters, and this run was written by Rainbow Rowell:
Round and round it goes, long before Stephen King. And I wonder what Tommy Tomorrow's version of the 21st century was like? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
His 21st Century is a lot more exciting than ours, helped by the advances in space travel and the fact that nearly everywhere in the solar system has life forms. Even a story about saving a friend's restaurant, which has run afoul of some crooks, features a lot of space-hijinks:
As for the lead story:
It's powers (in this specific instance, that's the correct form of the possessive) vary.
But whence comes It???
And why is there a random meowing cat in this image? Seriously, it does not figure into the story in any way.
Superman doesn't answer that question, but he does figure out the twist and (spoiler alert) save the day! The original Star Trek would use the same twist as this story in a well-regarded episode.
Thanks for the info JD.
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