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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JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
There are three books that were on sale in February 1973 that I know I had:
Justice League of America #105: the induction of THE ELONGATED MAN who I saw for the first time as well as THE ATOM and BLACK CANARY. I had #103, then this one but didn't get another JLA until #109.
This is an issue that I could recite from memory!
Superboy #194: probably the first time I knew about the Boy of Steel. Much later, I read other Superboy stories from this period. This is one of the stronger ones! Again, I wouldn't get Superboy again until #203 and by then, the book had changed!
Marvel Super-Heroes #36: My second Marvel book and it was a reprint! And it was my first HULK and SUB-MARINER, nothing like the DC heroes! I 100% remember buying this from my local stationery shop!
But the character that made the most impact on young me was...BOOMERANG! In grade school, I "created" by own heroes and one was..."Boomerang Boy" but at least I gave him a magic boomerang!
"Of all people"
Batman's incredulity here seems a bit of a stretch.
While each only had two titles apiece in March 1962, Superman and Batman (with Robin) shared World's Finest and both (without Robin) were founding members of the original Justice League of America. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
On sale the month I graduated from high school.
There is now a Spider-Mobile living in a Cars-inspired alternate universe of sentient vehicles. His secret identity is Peter Parkedcar, and he works for J. Jonah Jalopy.
Spider-Mobile, Peter Parkedcar and J. Jonah Jalopy
All-Star Comics #41, cover dated June-July, 1948. June was my birth month.
This is 227, but the cover villain suits National Obesity Day:
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
My, Max Dillon has certainly changed, hasn't he?
The only book that resonated to me for February 1973 was World's Finest Comics #218. This was a very grim tale where the heroes don't win and the villain meets a lonely demise.
It also gave me the first hint that maybe Superman wasn't being used to his full potential in WFC!
Plus, my first time seeing METAMORPHO!
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