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 did indeed, Richard! First in the appropiately numbered Iron Man #20 and again in Captain America #177-178 which I read as part of my early Marvel days!
Here comes a series of covers with a minor (sic) villain... but first... BOMB VOYAGE!
JD Deluzio is on a mission out in space. As his designated back-up, I will be posting his covers and comments for the next couple of days. (The bad puns are all his.)
Curiously, "Dr. No-Face" also had the surname, "Dent." But ask people if they know the Batman villain, "Dr. No-Face," and they'll probably draw a Blank.
Does anyone remember...a Guy Named Joe? The villain from the last Steve Ditko Amazing Spider-Man returned over a decade later to battle Captain America and raid Doctor Octopus' closet!
Three reasons for my second post of the day:
1. This is an issue #20
2. Microsoft tells me that today is International Owl Awareness Day
3. The Owl is a pretty obscure villain, more of an annoyance
Again, just a hunch, but I don't think this motley crew attacking Supes, played a big part in the DC Universe.
One somewhat prestigious Silver Age appearance against two super-heroines before Batman permanently took over the title, never to be heard from again? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Blue Devil preventing minor villain The Roadmaster from stealing a car.
World's Finest #20
Features the Toyman (see "Superman from the Beginning").
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