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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Jake (real name Aurelian Smith Jr.) was known for his finishing maneuver (The DDT), his python, Damian, and his epic chemical abuse. His half-brother Michael wrestled as Sam Houston, and his half-sister Robin wrestled as Rockin' Robin.
Their father, wrestler "Grizzly" Smith, is alleged to have been a Jimmy Savile level sex criminal.
And for being one of the greatest wrestlers who NEVER won a championship in WWF/WWE.
"HE NEVER GOT A DINNER!"
Urrgh!
It's high time the Looney Tunes swung into action this month:
In the Doc Savage movie, the snakes were gaseous and cartoons!
I had a couple from Doc Savage ready to go for today. The above was one, here is the other.
When I was looking for Snake Eyes covers, I also found this. Despite the title, a snake only appeared on the first issue of this independent series that lasted only three issues in the 1990s, according to the Grand Comics Database.
And by the way, the Super Team Family blog has an interesting match up today that fits this month's theme.
Challengers of the Unknown #19 has a bonus of some kind of serpent with killer eyes.
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