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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From a thrift shop in town decades ago, I bought a beat-up copy of Dead of Night #11 (Au'75), the first appearance of Marvel's latest Monster hero, the SCARECROW! It was also the last issue of the series.
I missed his second appearance in Marvel Spotlight #26 (F'76) but got his third and for fifteen years, his last appearance in Marvel Two-In-One #18 (Au'76). It was at the beginning of the trend of using MTIO and Marvel Team-Up to wrap up cancelled series or in the case of the Scarecrow, later renamed the Straw Man, a series that never took off!
How odd is this? People often post "theme" covers that someone else intended to post, but there are zillions of potential #18s. I'd set aside this one for a later-this-month post, figuring, yeah, it's not like anyone is going to post Two-in-One #18. My story is a little like yours. I enountered the Scarecrow/Straw Man here, and then went back and later read the Dead of Night / Spotlight origins. I found the concept of what seemed a "horror comic" story, not necessarily connected to the greater Marvel Universe, crossing over, fascinating.
My obligatory rainbow bridge cover for this month.
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Lois Lane #18. A wild story that's not a dream, hoax or imaginary story (well, maybe dueling hoaxes, neither by Superman).
Twenty years later:
DC Special Series #18
This year's Monster High Pride.
Katy Keene #18. From September 1954.
DC Comics Presents #18 was a big deal to me because of ZATANNA's co-star role!
While the tophat/fishnets look is her most iconic and her George Perez outfit is well-liked, it was her "Young Sorceress" garb that she wore when she joined the JLA and appeared in DCCP and B&B. Not appreciated much at the time or since, I remember it well!
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