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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Blonde Phantom #18 was on sale when I was born; Blonde Phantom #19, when I was a week old.
Blonde Phantom was from 1940s Marvel. Surprisingly, it hasn't been brought into current storylines.
Au contraire!
I knew I should have included "AFAIK." GCD isn't sure who the artists were on the two Golden Age covers, but they were head and shoulders above John Byrne's figure of Blonde Phantom. Sorry, but true.
The 27 Club abducted two members in September 3 and 18 of 1970: Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat and, of course, Jimi Hendrix. The cover date for this comic is September of 1970. Although I went out for Halloween in 1969 as a "Martian," this Gold Key comic really ignited (and misled-- but so would have any other popular source of the day) my interest in aliens and alleged visitations.
Wilson died in Topanga Canyon, for years a reputed "hot spot" for UFO sightings, while Hendrix, who had an interest in SF, took the blues to outer space and back.
Reporter: I’m from The New York Times.
Jimi: I’m from Mars.
One time I had an Election Night assignment in Topanga Canyon. Couldn't see my hand in front of my face.
I'm quite certain people have seen UFOs in the canyon. I am almost as certain they have not seen extraterrestrial craft.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
November 1973: Three things I've noticed:
1) Yet another book with the HULK in it!
2) I had a lot of Marvel Team-Up from this period.
3) Though I had books with the Fantastic Four and its members, at this time I had no issues of either Fantastic Four or Marvel's Greatest Comics. At this point, I don't know what my first FF was.
SInce I started reading (and I do stress the R word) comics in 1974, below was my first major milestone. I remember some news hoopla over the event, although I don't remember any picture of the cover that included the key background clue before publication. As Action Comics celebrated its 40th anniversary, by this point I already knew the difference between Earth 1 and Earth 2, but it would still be a couple of decades before "my" Lois and Clark actually got married. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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