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 thing from the TV wants to buy him groceries?
Looks like a hetero Heated Rivalry sort of situation:
When Captain Marvel Jr. plays Crack the Whip, he really plays Crack the Whip!
Do you mean that you'd never heard of Dillin when you bought the comic (which I can understand), or you've never heard of him now (which I find almost unbelieveable)? I first encountered Dillin when he replaced Mike Sekowsky on Justice League of America, but before that he was probably best known as the artist for Blackhawk, on which he'd worked for decades.
Pondering the equipment was mentioned in a previous post, but Archie did touch upon the subject before snowboarding became popular. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Challengers of the Unknown #25 and Sea Devils #25
Okay... Ingesting addictive substances is not a winter sport (people do it year-round), but one kid is wearing an Edmonton Oilers jersey and holding a stick, and a hockey legend (Herb Carnegie) appears in the comic. Skating on Thin Ice, with its Todd MacFarlane cover, was the first of three comics produced with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Alliance for a Drug-Free Canada, and Health and Welfare Canada in the early 1990s. For the most part, they were distributed in elementary schools, but they quickly circulated among collectors and shops. I have the first two. The Bugle sends Parker to Canada, where Spider-man quickly becomes involved in drug-related plots and positive social messages.
Some aspects of the messaging appear to be contradicted by this recent (somewhat self- congratulatory) Canadian comedy sketch:
WALKING ON THIN ICE.
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