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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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #18
Has anyone read this one?
Here she is!
I've never read the DNAgents, let alone Crossfire and Rainbow, but any appearnce by The Marx Brothers has me intrigued. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I wish I had better awareness of Eclipse Comics back in the day. That publisher was truly unique, and had a lot of respect for creators.
Mark Evanier built something of a personal franchise there with DNAgents and Crossfire, who he has often declared to be among his favorite works.
I have been revisiting their appearances and building a commented publication timeline.
By my count, including reprints, the Tales of the Teen Titans quasi-appearance and the RPG sourcebook there are exactly 90 DNAgents / Crossfire published products.
It was also apparently a particularly personal body of work for Evanier. Between his text pieces - which go way beyond simple letter answering - and cat Yronwode's editorials and announcements, it was also particularly transparent and, in a sense, welcoming.
Which is not to say that they were consistently _easy_ reads; quite the opposite. Many of the Crossfire stories (and definitely the "Whodunnit?" series) had very complex plots, with plenty of characters developed to such a degree that it is easy to get lost. Meanwhile, the DNAgents stories were actually somewhat repetitive, but consistently disturbing due to the ethical dilemmas involved in the premise.
About this specific issue's cover, there are two things to note:
1. The cover scene, or something very similar indeed, _does_ happen as part of the story told.
2. I don't know why the cover says that this is #2 of 2. This was a four-issue miniseries. Maybe it was expanded from two at the last minute and some covers were misprinted. #2 is a reasonable enough end to the series, for what it is worth.
I definitely need to track that series down someday.
Rainbow Ravens!
A Norwegian Pride cover.
Classics Illustrated #18. None of the movies adapt the story so well. Movies force happy endings.
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