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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He appeared in Bizarro Comics #1! I thought they had made him up.
They actually made a LEGO minifigure of him!
We only see THEIR shadows on the cover, but THEY were simultaneously some of the most disturbing and ridiculous villains Wonder Woman faced during her depowered era, and seemingly created from the same fears Dr. Wertham had of Wonder Woman herself:
These horrific aunts struck such terror into the hearts of THEIR victims that "THEM!" always appeared in red. When a runaway teen girl writes a note about THEM, it even appears in red on that, as though, in the midst of her terror, she stopped to change pens just to write "THEM!"
Here's a clearer look:
Any relation to...?
That's what THEY say.
May as well get this minor (sic) character out of the way.
This is the only appearance of Alaktor, the character ordering the LoSH to disband, so I consider him to be a minor villain. His companions aren't. After all, he does describe them as "the three greatest villains of all time".
Hitler, Nero and John Dillinger! I think that Dillinger qualifies as a minor villain also.
When Aquaman took over Adventure Comics in 1975, he had to deal with CAPTAIN DEMO, a pirate who takes over Atlantis briefly, thanks to some hidden bombs. Actually the thought of airbreathers staying underwater to rule a city that can easily kill them is ridiculous!
But at the time, I thought Demo was a credible menace. Now, I wish that they used CUTLASS CHARLIE from Justice League of America #61!
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