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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By today's standards, I totally agree. But Action Comics 457 was approved by the Comics Code Authority in 1976.
Emily Briggs is (a) Looker.
Jimmy Olsen #121. Is it possible to stoop any lower?
It's happened before...
Astronauts were launched the other day to the ISS, and the Artemis mission, hopefully, will get off the ground next time. In their honour, here's a space-going #26:
Hey kids! Name five inaccuracies in this drawing!
Baby Huey doesn't have a space suit on. So cannot breathe in outer space, let alone propel a spaceship with a sail via wind power, which would be impossible since space is an empty vacuum to begin with. The sail is probably one of his (hopefully unused) diapers, so we can probably let that one slide. But where did they get the wood and the rope?
Saturn is way too close to Earth, and how are they supposed to steer towards Earth or whatever their destination is?
That's six inaccuracies by my count.
Your no-prize is in the mail.
Tomahawk #26
When I was growing up Westerns were a TV staple. So although I was a superhero reader I would occasionally stray over the border to the wild west. Not many had secret identities, Zorro , the original Ghost Rider and this guy. There are probably more that I'm not aware of.
Of course I forgot the greatest. Who was that masked man? I'm fairly sure he never appeared mask less but I can't be certain.
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