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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Doc Quartz makes some robot animals including a rhino for Sterling Morris to hunt, with the predictable out-of-control automaton chaos that usually follows!
Let's not forget Captain Marvel, Jr.
No matter what he does, those (horned) Thought Monsters keep hunting Kal-El. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Check here on the Nominations thread for themes suggested for the New Year. Does anyone want to add to the list before I declare the ballot open?
Captain Marvel also fought non-robotic rhinos:
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #24
Looking at those last few posts, I get the impression that Fawcett's colorists had never seen a rhinoceros. Anyway, here Turok and Andar encounter a horned animal, but not one you'd expect:
It's Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham vs the Rhino - chaos must ensue!
This looks to me like another rhino among the Elephantmen, even if the cover says "Unicorn".
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