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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The Teen Titans, in their original incarnation, encountered a bonanza of minor villains.
I'll be following next month, but I doubt that I'll be posting in this thread until October.
X-Men 22 and 23 had a bunch of (enjoyable) minor villains working with a lead minor villain, Count Nefaria. You can have too many world-destroying villains.
In transition to next month's "Nick Cardy" theme, here's Aquaman #26 (March-April 1966), with minor villain The Huntress.
Not to be confused with either Huntress from Earth-2: the first (IMHO) isn't minor, the second isn't a villain.
Black Cat #20, my last August cover.
And here's my transition cover. Oh, it's the Cardy Teen Titans, but a very early configuration. And the Separated Man only appeared once.
I've got a lot of Nick Cardy covers on standby, so we'll transition with this minor villain. While the status of Winslow Schott (on the right) is questionable, Jack B. Nimbal on the left (and I am NOT making that name up) is the minor villain of record on this Cardy cover. He tried becoming the new Toyman before the original killed him, with his biggest accomplished being the Toyman of record in a couple of early Legion of Doom versus the Super Friends battles. I guess the proverbial Powers That Be didn't want any heroes beating up on someone who looked like anyone's grandfather. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
If you never read Brave and the Bold #120, you must track it down, especially if you're a fan of Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth (that bit is very important).
Obviously, Bob Haney gave Jack Kirby's books a cursory glance, if that!
And this is my transition cover as the Legion is nearly killed by MOLECULAR MASTER who appeared twice!
At one point, this was my oldest Legion comic, it featured the soon-to-be Wildfire and I got mine signed by Dave Cockrum!
TRANSITION: From the 20th month (20 characters)...
...to the 21st (21):
Sorry if this is early but Justice League of America #103 was my very first comic book ever!
As a kid when I listed the JLA members, these six were always first and in this order!
Plus, I really liked the Phantom Stranger!
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