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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On sale in April, the month one of my sisters was born
October 1958, Action Comics #245.
For September 1973: I'm not sure if I had it when it came out but Avengers #118 was pretty early for me with so many heroes that I saw for the first time! Plus there was a page of other characters that it took me months to figure out who all of them were. It was years before I recognized Thanos!
And of course, the first issue of the Avengers/Defenders War I get is the last one!
Spider-Man #27. How did they ever think of this story title?
This has a March 9 release date, and today is the birthday of one of my nephews, Shaun, and the first of three March birthdays in my family.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
Marvel Two-In-One #27---a very crowded issue with the Thing, The Fantastic Four, Nick Fury, President Jimmy Carter and a surprise guest.
But the oddest aspect was that DEATHLOK THE DEMOLISHER was now in the present! I only saw him in Marvel Team-Up #46 and an issue or two of Astonishing Tales but he didn't fit in the 20th century and, indeed, had no future!
As mentioned in my last post, romance comics were big in the 1960s too. Here's one from my birth month of March 1962, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Following on from my X-Men purchase in January 1967, someone in UK comic publishing must have noticed my purchase, as, one month later, Odhams Press under the imprint of Power Comics published the very first edition of Fantastic Comic after reaching a deal with Marvel to reprint old stuff in black and white un the UK. I bought every weekly comic, including this one.
Did they ever do the fantastic Fantastic Four?
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