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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Another comic from Fago on sale the month I was born
Comic Cavalcade #27. Not only is it a #27, but it's cover dated June-July 1948.
A handful of significant women in my life (including my wife) have been born on the thirteenth of the month. Here are birth months for two of them:
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
Funny that DC had a couple of Marvel named characters, but Marvel (When they came into being later in 1961) didn't have any DC characters. Unless you count one of the Electros,
I still say that DC should have retained the Fawcett Captain Marvel's name, and Marvel should have had a protector of America's capital named "Captain DC."
December 1973: CHRISTMAS TIME and in our stockings were:
Justice League of America #110 where they kill Santa Claus! It was my first seeing THE JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, especially that iconic two-page portrait that we know so well! Here they tackle juvenile deliquency and a gang of refylar crooks!
It was also the first time encountering the JOHN STEWART GREEN LANTERN and ZATANNA THE MAGICIAN! It was the last part of her search for Zatara but it was the one I read first!
Superman #273: Another Superman gets replaced story, this time by "The Wizard with the Golden Eye"!
World's Finest Comics #222: The Super Sons! And I just accepted them! Later, I realized how strange this story was as instead of a generation gap, Superman Jr and Batman Jr argue over whose father's world view is right! And Batman Jr is the "villain"!
Marvel Tales #50: another Marvel reprint. It was the second part but I followed along fine.
Man, I loved those 100-pagers. All those Golden Age reprints!
Doubled and redoubled! Those things were a super value!
You'll see more of them before this month is through!
Superman was well popular by 1962, so spinoffs were inevitable. I don't know why it took so long to promote Supergirl from feature to her own title and Lois Lane's series had an off month, so this was the only Superman Family title on the stands that March. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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