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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This book is cover dated Jan 1962 but I would have bought it in July of that year close to my birthday.
We were on holiday in Blackpool a popular holiday place during Wakes week . Wakes weeks were traditional holidays when the cotton mills would close down and the practically whole town would go on holiday.
I'd read a few comics of my older friends but this was the he first American comic book I bought with my own money. Lois Lane seems an unusual choice for 9 year old boy but it was a good introduction to the Superman family.
For some reason, March 1 is National Pig Day in the US, and so I'm starting by posting Porky Pig #27:
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH.
As I've said before, my very first comic book was Action Comics 434, cover dated April 1974, which was actually on sale in January or February of that year. I can't remember why I had never seen a comic book before then, but I probably bought it with my allowance because of the Super Friends cartoon show.
My birth month is March 1962, so I'll turn 64 on the fifth later this week. While they were probably all released before the end of 1961 the way cover dates were back then, I have a slew of March 1962 book covers to post this month, starting with my first comic's birth month counterpart. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I already said that the first comic books I ever saw I got for Christmas 1972: Justice League of America #103, Superman #261, Batman #257 and Marvel Team-Up #7.
I looked at what was out in January 1973 and the only thing that struck a chord was Action Comics #422 (Ma'73). It featured a STAR TREK analogy and even mentioned STAR TREK. I don't know if I was watching the show then but I soon would at any rate. In this story, the "Kirk" actor tries to kill the more popular "Spock" actor before he's written off their show! Talk about "Risk is their Business"!
It also contained the origin of the Human Target and his third appearance though I didn't know that at the time. I wouldn't see the second part for years but that first part is burned into my memory!
In my case, I probably saw my first comic books at the “mom and pop” drug store, complete with a soda fountain and two spinner racks, in our tiny downtown. Initially, my mother probably paid for them, but I have always personally selected my comics. This began with Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker and Fox and Crow. I Love Lucy was a very popular TV show in the U.S. and in our house. In January 1957 (when I was 8 1/2), George Reeves portrayed Superman (as a real person) on an episode of the show. I don’t really know, but seeing this may have sparked my interest in his show and in Superman comics.
Since I have no idea exactly when I started reading comics, I'll be using cover dates and on-sale months, based upon my birth month, June 1948.
Another month so let's go with my usual Little Audrey. Some themes she doesn't fit but here is a cover cover dated the month I was born, but of course on sale earlier.
Moon Girl #3 was on sale in June 1948, my birth month.
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