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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Okay. Since I screwed up and made a duplicate post yesterday, here's a double header to make up for it. On the left is the only appearance, to date, of the "infamous" Z-Gang while on the right although Copperhead appeared during Snakes and Reptiles month, he also qualifies for Minor Villains month. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Kantuu, another one-off minor villain from the Legion of Super-Heroes. Kantuu is a Djinn, one of a warrior race who attacked Oa. The Guardians imprisoned them in bottles of green energy, sentencing them to grant wishes to whoever released them.
Duo Damsel figured out how to wear two different outfits?
Yes. This was actually a plot point in the Legion story in Superboy #193 (February 1973), when she and several other Legionnaires got new costumes. Hers was purple on one side and orange on the other while she was in a single body, but when she split, her two bodies were wearing different colours. The effect was useful in that story, but meant that it was now possible to tell when she was using her power, so removing one of her chief advantages in espionage situations!
Strange Adventures #20
A retrofuturistic "20" cover with a familiar monster:
One imagines that space suits will always be at least a little bulkier than this. Perhaps she's also increasing in size?
Grax got another appearance... which made him more popular as a Super Friends villain than a Superman villain.
Here he is imitating Dr. Destiny in "When Gravity Went Wild!"
Captain Omen seems to me to be whispering to us not his unhuman hordes.
Or have I missed the point of this cover?
Yesterday I looked at Spider-Man #1-30 to determine the "most minor" villain appearing on the cover. Today, let's look at #31-60. One of the things that seperates run-of-the-mill series from the best is the quality and depth of the character's rogue's gallery. Spider-Man's is top notch. There are very few "minor" villains. Other series--no so much.
I'm going to go with #38, although I understand Joe Smith did appear a few additional times and reformed.
DC Comics Presents #20 where Superman and Green Arrow take on BO FORCE, a strange sendoff on both J. R. Ewing ( "Dallas") and Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg ("Dukes of Hazzard")!
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