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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Santa Klaus was a telepathic psycho who wore a jolly red suit. As he could now destinguish, as he saw it, between naughty and nice, he began hunting down the "naughty" people.
House of Mystery #158 (April 1966). A crook named Daffy Dagan gets hold of the H-Dial which transforms Robby Reed into a random hero when he dials H-E-R-O. Dagan accidentally dials V-I-L-L-A-I-N, is transformed into a random (minor) villain, and decides to call himself...
DAFFY THE GREAT!
[No, I didn't make any of that up!]
Stacy Macklin started as a supporting cast member in Wonder Woman but later became the split personality villain LADY LUNAR in World;s Finest Comics #266 (Ja'81) where she fought Superman and Batman. She was the new version of an older one-shot villain, THE MOON MAN from WFC #98 (D'58) which I read in Super-Team Family #4 (My'76).
(The Moon Man, with a different appearance, appeared in an episide of 1978's New Adventures of Batman where he battled the team of Batman, Robin, Batgirl and Bat-Mite! No, really!)
Lady Lunar was supposedly cured of her evil persona but she appeared during the Crisis. Despite having only one major appearance, she received an entry in the first Who's Who series!
Between all the various comics and TV series' episodes they've repeated themes, motifs and even plots but to the best of my knowledge, no Scooby-Doo villain ever came back for a second appearance, let alone a rematch. Does that make them all minor leaguers? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The Creeper returned, but years later.
He did? News to me. But by what criteria does one qualify as a minor villain, let alone graduate to the majors? Number of appearances? Who they fought? Wins? This category appears wide open for interpetation at the moment.
Oh, I agree with your general premise. Scooby villains are definitely all minor, with single appearances and eventual defeat at the hands (and paws) of four kids and a dog. But it is worth noting that the Creeper reappeared, in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013). The show is noteworthy for giving the series a more tongue-in-check tone, depicting the gang's parents (Casey Kasem's final voice-acting role is as Shaggy's father), featuring other past characters (The Hex Girls, Vincent Van Ghoul), recurring guest-cast (including one voiced by Linda Cardellini, and Harlan Ellison as himself), and having an overall story arc. It is, I think, the last series before Kate Miccuci took over the voice of Velma, and it features a hilarious episode involving one of H.P. Hatecraft's notorious creations coming (supposedly) to life, Char Gar Gothakon, The Beast That Hath No Name.
It also provides an explanation for why some of the animals in the Scoobyverse speak. I didn't think that was necessary, but it hardly matters. Continuity in Scooby Doo makes the DCU look like a seamless chronology.
Again this is only a hunch, but I believe that "Colossal Cube Creature" was a fairly minor villain.
Early Antman and X-Men seemed to be the entry level heroes for potential villains. If you couldn't best them then pack it up and go home. Cobalt man didn't make many more appearances. Again there is a 20 odd year gap in my comic reading so I could be wrong.
X-Men #20, continued next issue. Lucifer AFAIK never returns after this two-parter. In flashback, he is the one who put Professor X in a wheelchair.
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