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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My return to comics began with this, bought in Dec of 1995. I hadn't thought about comics for over two decades then a couple of things happened. The animated series Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and the X-Men appeared on UK TV and my children were watching. Then Jack Kirby died and that made the UK newspapers, this started an itch.
So I went along to my nearest comic book store that stocked back issues, of course I was mildly surprised at the prices they were asking . My intention was just to try and replace the books I used to have , mainly Lee and Kirby Fantastic Fours, the ones I could afford of course.
But like many " addictions " this rapidly grew into full immersion in everything comics. The increasing availability of quality reprints made this much more achievable.
July 3, 1969, more or less the date, certainly the month or year:
Brian Jones drowns at 27, the same age that Robert Johnson's life ended. A myth starts to take shape:
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
DC and Marvel also focused on different genres besides superheroes. While this title had nothing(?) to do with Matt Dillion and company, I wonder how the "House of Ideas" got away with it in March 1962. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Got away with what?
The use of the title Gunsmoke, I assume.
Until JD pointed it out, I drew a blank on the famous name Matt Dillon. I was thinking about comics, not TV.
After several title changes, Gunsmoke Western ran from #32 (on sale Sep 22, 1955) to #77 (on sale May 2, 1963). The first episode of the Gunsmoke TV show debuted on Sep 10, 1955. Practically a photo finish. It’s unlikely that they knew about each other.
But Gunsmoke was also a RADIO western featuring the voice of William Conrad as Matt Dillon long before the first TV episode aired.
True, but radio dramas had dropped off when more and more people had TV's. Knowing Martin Goodman, he was probably trying to see if he would get sued. That's why he had all of those fake publishing companies instead of just one. I created a thread about those in 2012:
Marvel's "Publishing Companies", Early Silver Age and Before - Foru...
Despite June 1973 featuring among others books: Batman #251, Justice League of America #107, Superboy (Co-Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes) #197, the beginning of the Avengers/Defenders War, Ghost Rider #1 and Jungle Action #6, I got NOTHING at the time! This would be par for the course during my early comic reading days though I would get many coverless and ripped up books.
For July 1973, there was Brave and the Bold #109, my first exposure to THE DEMON and my only one for years and another Kirby creation, Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth #10, though my older brother had more of those. Still, Kamandi represented me reading things beyond superheroes at such a young age!
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