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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I'm struggling a little with this month's concept. Although silver-age Marvel had dozens of minor villains, silver-age DC tended to go with protaganists rather than villains. They weren't really into 100s of super-baddies. Superboy #144 is a case in point. This comic starred Kirk Quentin who wasn't a villain but just a guy from another world who had some weird parents with some rather strange ideas...
Minor can mean they never made the "big time", but were still good enough for more than one appearance, right? In that case, meet Crazy Quilt, who was cover featured against the Boy Commandos twice in his short career without much luck. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Crazy Quilt went from the Boy Commandos to Robin the Boy Wonder than finally to Batman!
I'm surprised the character got around more than I first thought Phillip, but he still didn't rise above his minor league status, did he?
Yeah, who is Replicus?
Green Lantern #20. One of my favorite covers, even though Flash charging the ring doesn't "ring true."
They've tried to make this villain big time but it just hasn't worked
Batman's first-ever supervillain, Dr Death, was introduced in Batman's third-ever appearance, in Detective Comics #29 (July 1939).
His only other Golden Age appearance was in the next issue of Detective, after which he wasn't seen again until Batman #345 (March 1982) and then Batgirl #44 (November 2003). I think this qualifies him as a "Minor Villain". Information from Comics Archaeology.
The Hidden Man lived up to his name. Never been seen since as far as I know.. Of course I could be wrong.
While reading the Avengers in Marvel Triple Action, I ran across the Mad Thinker's Triumvirate (which I had to look up) of Terror: the first Hammerhead, the first Piledriver and the only Thunderboot! Given Captain America's absence, these three henchmen DEFEATED five Avengers and the Mad Thinker almost won if Hercules hadn't come back from clubbing!
Yet, the Mad Thinker never used them again!
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