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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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.)
I'm back, not from space, in fact, but from an unexpected trip to Kathmandu. I'll post a short comment at another thread and a more thorough explanation later on. I thank Jeff of Earth-2 for posting some of my covers and comments over the last few days, and the Captain for his good wishes. My recent adventures have been strange, but not so strange as Six-Gun Gorilla's. The gun-toting simian faces the evil bounty hunter Auchenbran, pictured on the cover of #5:
This clever six-issue series revives a forgotten public domain hero and gives him a brand new setting that combines SF, westerns, and satire. But if the hero is obscure, then his this villain must be deemed minor. I rather enjoyed the series, however.
Although not pictured on the cover, the story started out with a decent plot and The Robot Master being a legitmate threat, then missed the proverbial left turn at Albuquerque and went off on a strange tanget that only the Silver Age could spawn and love. A minor villain in this case because of it being the Robot Master's only appearance, outside of reprints. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Flash #20. Except for the guy who's trying to outrun The Flash, it looks like he's killing them all.
As stated on this cover The Terrible Trio first appeared in Fantastic Four but didn't warrant a cover appearance there.
They returned a few times to trouble the Torch. Even Stan must have thought them so forgettable he needed a cover blurb to to give them some credibility as a threat.
Some of the minor villains were fun even if they didn’t have a prayer against the hero. This is the Torch who imagined he had a secret identity and who was challenged by a rain of wet acorns.
Yes this version of the Torch didn't really fit with the main FF stories. I seem to remember reading a long time ago that Martin Goodman told Stan to give the Torch his own series because he was one of Timely's big 3 back in the 40's and 50's. But it's obvious from these tales that neither Stan or Jack had much enthusiasm for this series.
It could almost be read as a kind of Elseworld's version of the Torch.
Let's follow up yesterday's "mining" cover with Jim Starlin's interpretation of Curt Swan/George Klein's cover, albeit with a different take on the minor villains, the prison guards.
The Hillbilly Warlock-- a half-pig, half-man villain from Shirtless Bear-Fighter.
The tone of the series (which, honestly, is pretty clear from the title) is well-established by a montage scene, where our hero fights bears that have been mysteriously hypnotized into acts of violence in all major cities. He's seen fighting actual bears in various places, but in Chicago, he's battling football players, and in San Francisco, members of the "Bear" subculture.
He's minor, but he really did beat every super hero on Earth. And then was beaten by... WENDY AND MARVIN?
Before the Legion was chained on Takron-Galtos, they (and many other heroes) were imprisoned in "The Super-Stalag of Space". This ought to make their jailer, Nardo, a major villain, but he never appeared again after these two issues, which makes him minor in my book!
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