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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That Life With Archie cover looks like it's an unofficial crossover with Dark Shadows. "Betty! Don't leap off of Widow's Hill!"
Why did they create THE BIRDMASTER when they already had the Penguin?
Then again they had Cluemaster (Riddler), Monarch of Menace (The Joker) and Poison Ivy (Catwoman)!
Let's empty the files of covers about mines that almost fit this month's theme
While he managed to make at least one return appearance that I am aware of, The Kangaroo just didn't have whatever it takes to get out of the minor leagues. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
This is what they did to him in the 90s!
In polka dot shorts?
Beware the Creeper #1 (May-June 1968), "Where Lurks The Menace?". Despite the story title, the minor villain fighting the Creeper is the Terror, not the Menace.
Challengers of the Unknown #20
The first Planet Master.
A great Dillin/Moldoff cover. Amongst the last few DC books I bought back when, before I transferred to a total Marvel collector.
(With the exception of Doom Patrol, the most Marvel like book DC had, in my opinion)
August '61 publication date but comics could sit in our local store spinner rack for years so I probably got it sometime in '62.
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