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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Hot Stuff #27 and Little Lulu #27
I have more special dates but, for today, here's a 27. Good series.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
I feel like, in true Silver Age form, he should have said, "...about to be destroyed by one of the alien robots from inner space!"
DC Comics Presents #27---the first appearance of MONGUL and WARWORLD, the start of a classic trilogy by Jim Starlin and the somewhat rare return of THE MANHUNTER FROM MARS, his continuity and power set ever changing. Then he was still a nostalgia act but in a few years, he would rejoin the Justice League (two versions of it) and get his own action figure!
Plus, "Whatever Happened To"...CONGORILLA! I read a few Congo Bill stories but only saw Congorilla once or twice. Just wait until Swamp Thing Annual #3!
Remember when Archie Comics also had superheroes? From March 1962, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
House of Mystery #27 and House of Secrets #27
This Mark Merlin story (DEC59) has a lot in common with this FEB57 story.
Here's a #27 with mischievous little men and the wearing of the green:
Last year I went to a nearby Irish-Canadian pub. This year, winter has returned for the day, and I have writing to do.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
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