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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I'm surprised she hasn't shown up yet because it seems like a prerequisite that every character with a sword human female, especially a redhead, has to fight at least one snake in their career.
FTFY
Yet another variant of the snake-charmer sub-theme:
(also, another redhead)
Tales of Suspense #19. Kirby outdoing himself.
That is my earliest issue of TOS.
I'm unfamiliar with this version of the Legion of Super Heroes, but apparently the serpentine character here is Sensor, their version of Princess Protectra. I've no idea what her relationship is with Karate Kid, or if he even exists in this continuity!
Yes, reboot Projectra / Sensor is serpentine instead of humanoid.
She probably didn't look as good in her costume.
One of Magneto's "Mutant Force" was a snake-man named SLITHER!
An old favorite of mine.
Of course, the Avengers weren't the only team vexed by the Sons of the Serpent.
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