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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CHROMA initially had some buzz as he was an early Todd McFarlane character and I believe they were looking for a Silver Surfer vibe but he never appeared again, to my knowledge.
The one thing you have to truly give a minor villain credit for. They keep trying. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Lesser-known comics tend to feature obscure villains:
But if Queen Marish isn't exactly a household name, this is definitely an interesting read with extraordinary artwork.
Strange Tales #20
This version of the Slasher is a minor villain if memorable (for all the wrong reasons), what's going on with those claw horns?
I haven't read this story but but I'm interested enough now to maybe track it down and that's what a good cover is supposed to do!
This one was so minor, he couldn't even afford any vowels in his name!
My first Marvel comic!
Another minor one-shot SLASHER, notable only for being Vietnamese and teaming (once) with three better known villains!
I believe his only other appearance was in Marvel Fun N' Games!
A Legion-adjacent minor villain, the White Spider, who fought Mon-El Valor in his spin-off series.
Major or minor, villains never win in the long run, even with help. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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