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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Batman #47, cover dated June-July, 1948. Batman #48 was on sale in June.
October 2022, the last physical single issue comic I bought. Over a period of 10 years I went almost completely digital except for FF. Fantastic Four was the book that made me a collector back in the early sixties. I used the analogy of your sports team, you choose it when young and then that's your team the rest of your life, through good and bad times. FF was my book and it definately thad highs and lows.
But when my local comic book store closed I had to buy this title from eBay , eventually after another reboot and renumbering to No. 1 I went wholly digital.
Of course, for the "27 Club" to exist, there had to be previous history of entertainers who died at that age. Although earlier examples exist, pop culture generally grounds the club with Robert Johnson, who died in August 16, 1938, and whose life and music cast long shadows on the history of popular music.
We know when he died. How remains a matter of legend and conjecture. Not even Dick Tracy could solve that one.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
While mostly World War 2 adventures, war comics were also an establishe genre during March 1962. While I appreciate the duo-tone, for lack of a better term, art technique, I don't think it was at its best in this example. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
This is another of colorist Jack Adler's "wash" covers.
October 1973 and two more books etched into my young mind!
Justice League of America #109: HAWKMAN leaves, the menace of Eclipso and possibly the first time that I saw AQUAMAN!
Marvel Team-Up #17: As usual, I missed the first part but I really got a thrill of seeing Mister Fantastic get the spotlight and young me thought that the Basilisk was a major villain!
Another from the month when I was born. I think I might go read this and see what I missed.
"There was shrinkage!"
Some of the stories worked better than others; I guess that's to be expected. All of the art was by Dick Ayers.. Strangely, two of the stories, "The Curse of Smallness" and "A Cry for Help," center around people shrinking.
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