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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It's the weekend so time for a little fun. This is the earliest comic book adaptation of Disney's Jungle Book I could find, complete with Kaa the snake. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Flash #19
I'm unfamiliar with this title,but it's certainly on-point:
Also applies to a blonde with an axe...
Blonde with an Axe needs to be a movie.
How about green hair
One of the members of Salem's Seven is REPTILLA, a serpent woman with snakes as hands!
She cannot use a phone, write a note, read a book, etc.!
Almost didn't make it today/tonight, ♫but now here's Beany and Cecil* in a Bob Clampett cartoon.♫ (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
*The Sea Sick Sea Serpent, who I only remember from a much later revival attempt.
I used to watch them as puppets before they were cartoons.
An Archie Comic based on that show where the characters were all named for characters in Archie Comics, and Jughead's "S" had a rather sinister meaning:
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