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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As far as I know Captain, that story in Flash 217-219 was supposed to be GL/GA 90. Just like Deadman's last Strange Adventures tale got serialized between Aquaman 50-52 of all places.
I remember the "what th-!?" moment I had with that Deadman backup, Lee! Certainly a strange place for it.
The Deadman story was not a leftover from Strange Adventures, but was written specifically to appear in those issues of Aquaman. There's a text piece "The Story behind the Story" by Steve Skeates in Aquaman #52. According to this, the Aquaman story was actually conceived as three 16-page chapters, allowing Jim Aparo to take more time on each panel. Since this left 7 unused pages at the back of each issue, editor Dick Giordano got together with Neal Adams to come up with the idea of a related Deadman backup in those pages.
So, we've reached the end of the month and have to say goodbye to the great Nick Cardy. I've enjoyed this month immensely and I strongly feel that Nick should be placed high on the artists' roster together with Neal Adams, Kirby and Curt Swan. May you rest in peace Nick and thanks for all that gorgeous artistry. I'll say goodbye to Nick by posting this one last cover - I still marvel how anyone could draw this couple in this foregeound position and make them look entirely natural. A genius drew this cover.
I hate to see Nick Cardy month end because even with this transition cover to Non Horror Horror Covers, I still have over 200 unused/unposted Cardy cover images! Oh well, maybe another time. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I didn't want to step on any one's toes but here are a few comics combining romance elements and horror. Not necessary transitions since they are horror, ahem, mystery, titles but close enough I think.
To start October: Showcase #22, the debut of the Silver Age Green Lantern
As I think I posted on some other theme, this heroes-go-horror was my first encounter with the Teen Titans, other than their appearances on the Superman / Aquaman Hour on Saturday mornings:
Ha! That was the first cover I thought of for this month's theme. Oh well, the previous issue was also relevant:
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