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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Still mining the same vein as the last few days. Guards on the prison planet Takron-Galton should count as minor villains.
The li'l Captain got the impression that the writer or editor of Legion in the Shooter/Swan era (although at the time I probably didn't know either name) thought of Superboy, Mon-El and Ultra Boy as the "big three" of the Legion, at least power-wise. I remember the three of them trying to breach the Time Trapper's time barrier, for example, and here they are on this cover. But even as a boy I had a good enough grasp on basic science to think that Element Lad was probably the most powerful of all. Certainly more powerful than Ultra Boy, with his clumsy one-power-at-a-time gimmick.
And while usually ignoring that Supergirl was a member too!
Plus, I thought it odd that they increased Ultra Boy's powers to be part of the Big Three while at the same time decreasing Star Boy's who originally had Superboy-like powers.
I guess a "Big Five" was just too much!
Karate Kid's series certainly featured a lot of rubbish minor villains! I'm presenting two covers, because the first one only gives the villain's name, while the second one actually shows him. Commander Blud's real name is, apparently, Frederick Sanguine!
FREDERICK SANGUINE! That's fantastic! Well done, David Michelinie and/or Paul Levitz! (The writing on Karate Kid was credited to "Barry Jameson," a pseudonym GCD attributes to both writers...although in his credited work, they pretty much only ID Michelinie, aside from a joint effort in KK #1.)
There have been other villains named Tyros (also mostly minor) but this one only appeared once.
Ever since LIBRA organized and betrayed the Injustice Gang then achieved cosmic power to his regret, he has been the epitome of the One-Shot Villain that has always fascinated me. There was no explanation for how he did all that he did and it never mattered! He was the Plot Point Personified!
(Yes, I know he returned in Final Crisis but that was decades later!)
I don't think Quex-Ul ever managed a second appearance.
Quex-Ul did return, looking less cool, in the excellent 1982 The Phantom Zone miniseries, then took the place of Non in the Post-Crisis comic book version of SUPERMAN II.
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.
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