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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As you may know, Black Sabbath are playing their last ever gig tonight, in Aston, Birmingham, not 20 miles from where I am currently sitting. It's a significant moment, not least because I saw them live no less than 4 times in B'ham in their early days. I couldn't find a cover with them on, as well as a serpent, but I found this, which I reckon is close enough.
On weekends, I try to have some fun with the monthly theme when possible. Today's snake is punningly lurking in the lower right hand corner. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Flash Gordon #26
This is the only issue I ever read of Charlton's Hercules. His actual foe in the issue is the three-bodied Geryon, who has a pet giant pterosaur. Herc grew a beard by the next issue.
Add these two to my post from yesterday, and it's three of a kind featuring snakes in the jungle, knives, and a heroine in a spotty bikini. Only two have a hero in a loincloth, though, as Princess Pantha (I assume) seems quite capable of rescuing herself!
Every time she appears, especially with the Circus of Crime, PRINCESS PTYHON sends her snakes to crush someone, they always fail and she whines about the hero hurting her "babies".
I know that she is one of Marvel's oldest super-villainesses who stayed a villainess but still...
When with the Circus of Crime, Princess Python never seemed to care who the opponent was. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Tales of Horror #8. December 1953.
A few days ago, I posted a cover where Shaggy and Scooby encounter a serpent-haired Medusa and get "stoned." But they should not feel so all alone:
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