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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Sea Devils #19. My last cover for July.
The transformed heads all make a kind of sense. Elongated man receives a snake-head:
While one could argue that Matter Master isn't an obscure enough villain (he's a complete unknown to the general public, and he's appeared far, far less often than,say, the guy in the lower right-hand corner of this cover. Okay, low bars, there), we'd still have the "Untouchable Aliens" to make this a transition of sorts. Standards for "obscure villain" are going to be a subject for debate, but I think I've found one or two that will surprise even this erudite old legion.
And many others that will be posted first by somebody else, meaning that #20s will end up comprising most of my covers next month.
Not much of a transition cover, I grant you. But I'll probably spend all month looking for a Nick Cardy snake cover... meanwhile, Punch is about as minor a villain as you can find. So it's kind of a three way transition cover.
W-wait.... The Teen Titans faced minor villains in their original run?
Go figger. Brainiac was busy, Heat Wave and Captain Cold were feuding, the Riddler was tied up with a joke book, and Egg Fu was on the run from Graham Kerr.
My transition cover: the Flash battles a one-shot villain called THE VIPER!
To transition from "19/Snakes and Serpents" to "20/Minor Villains", I offer the terrifying Feathered Serpent appearing in Jungle Drums #20.
Ok, I don't have a transition cover, but I do have this wonderful Mexican Tarzan cover from 1975.
Besides Phillip's, the only other minor villain snake based cover I knew of (Copperhead) was posted back at the beginning of July, but that doesn't mean we can ever let our guard down against snakes wanting to take over Earth, no matter what continuity or corner of the multiverse they attempt it in. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Starting off August, Strange Tales #112 and #117. The first two appearances of the Eel, a minor Marvel villain.
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