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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Atom #20. Dressing up in suits and ties worked against these crooks.
Mech-X made two appearances in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, a rarity for a horror comic, and it definitely qualifies as a villain. Being an AI, it presented a major threat to humanity, but few people know Mech-X by name, so I think we must call it a minor villain:
Even Gold Key could be prescient.
Greenback is a minor villain, but he brought some change tp the SuperFriends.
This issue had an appearance by Funny man and a "cameo" by Tony Stark!
Blackie Drago the 2nd Vulture. I guess Marvel thought Adrian Toombes looked too old to be an ongoing villain.
But as fictional characters often do the1st and only Vulture had different ideas.
In 1973, there was a THIRD Vulture with a more gruesome story!
In the Spider-Girl title, Blackie Drago's daughter donned the wings.
Microwave Man appeared in only one story and it was a poignant one!
(Technically he should have changed the history of the DC Universe but sadly, didn't!)
I'm suggesting we should start to decide themes to follow Nick Cardy. See the Nominations thread here.
Meanwhile, Batman and the Legion of Super-Heroes face the [awesome menace] minor villain Anton Halkor.
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