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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One more day of minotaurs
Does a rhino whose horn has been cut off still count? Put it this way: do you feel brave enough to tell this guy that he doesn't count?
While it had a few light hearted moments per episode, this was Hanna-Barbera's version of Land of the Lost. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Uncanny X-Men #52. Cover artist is Don Heck
The one, the only, the iconic, the immortal...FIN FANG FOOM!
btw, when did the Foomster officially became part of the Marvel Universe? Was it as late as It the Living Colossus' run in Astonishing Tales?
According to some quick research, it was actually much later. Fin Fang Foom first appeared in "Strange Tales" #89 (1961), and then in Astonishing Tales' "It the Living Colossus" feature (#23-24, 1974). But It itself was only revealed to be part of the Marvel Universe in 1980's "Incredible Hulk" #244. Fin Fang Foom then met the Mandarin in 1990's "Iron Man" #261, and the Jim Rhodes Iron Man in #271 (1991).
Still in late 1991 Fin Fang Foom and his old enemy / sometime master Chan Liuchow turned up in "Legion of Night".
Police Comics #24. Something else to upset Wertham.
"Say that to my face."
The Return of the Rhino!
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