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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Almost didn't make it today but another hero goes against the Circus of Crime and Princess Python and her snakes. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
52, week 19
For the nineteenth:
Yeah, more Baddoon. They're a good race of bad guys!
Loved this storyline as a kid, and was fascinated by its future history of the Marvel Universe. I cannot read this cover now without revising it: "Earthlings, Unless you instantly surrender, you--- the strongest green dude on earth, a mystically-powered mythic superwoman whose only major weakness is obviated by the fact that you're a Brotherhood, and a sorcerer who has been removed from the story until now because of how decisively he deals with you near the conclusion,* -- will obviously kick our collective reptilian butts before we can even attempt to wipe out the planet that we conquered because we actually wanted it in the first place."
*Not to mention the Guardians of the Galaxy, the freed Resistance movement, and a Batman clone.
♫Look for those bare neccessities. Those simple bare necessities. Forget about your worries and your strife. I mean the bare neccessities. Old Mother Nature's recipes that bring the bare neccessities of life.♫ (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I loved this film. I saw it when it first came out in 1967, in a tiny little cinema in Llandudno with my brother, my mum and my gran. We ran round the caravan singing 'bare necessities' for days afterwards. Happy days!
I'd always thought that the song was "The Bear Necessities", but you've prompted me to look it up, and I was mistaken! Although the title is often (mis-)spelled with the pun I'd assumed, the correct title is, indeed, "The Bare Necessities". TIL!
It was an intentional phonetic play on words.
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