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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I guess JJJ isn't an actual supervillain. He only hires them.
Yes, that was my thinking. As far as I know JJJ never gained powers of his own, of course I'm ready to be proved wrong. Best thing about this site is if you don't know something someone else will fill in the gaps.
Tales to Astonish #28. Unlike "The Man in the Anthill", this Gorilla Man didn't inspire a superhero character.
...although this one did:
Two-Fisted Tales #28: As usual, EC gave readers what they expected, and what they didn't expect, at once:
Another super villain in a non-super hero book.
This cemented the Superboy/Wildfire and put Wildfire into Superboy's weight class, so to speak!
Here's Supernan #203. Interestingly, DC were not big on putting supervillains on the covers of their superhero comics. They worked on the premise that a puzzle or conundrum was more likely to draw in readers than constantly showing Brainiac, Lex Luthor or The Toyman on their covers.
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