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 didn't come across Sal Buscema's artwork until The Defenders via back issues. This cover is inked by Jim Mooney. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Sal Buscema's first Marvel Team Up cover!
And it had to be Sons of the Tiger!
Justice League #29 introduced Earth-3 and its reversal of characters. Villains are heroes and vice versa. The JLA members seated at the tale "happen to be" the ones whose villainous counterparts appear in this continued story. Next month they'll make the cover. This is an homage to All-Star #8, below.
A few comments from me on these two issues:
Detective #327 went on sale on March 26, 1964. Batman #164 went on sale on April 16, 1964. World’s Finest #142 went on sale of April 30, 1964. Justice League #29 went on sale on June 11, 1964. Batman’s new chest symbol debuted in Detective 327, followed closely by Batman 164. So its cover appearance in World’s Finest 142 and Justice League 29 followed its already having been established as his New Look. I verified something I had always heard by seeing an online posting of the stories in World’s Finest 141. This Weisinger-edited book has his previous chest symbol on the cover, but the “Olsen-Robin Team” story inside used the New Look chest symbol before its debut in Detective 327. What I didn’t realize until now was that whem the Batman and Detective titles were taken away from Jack Schiff and given to Julius Schwartz, they also took World’s Finest away from Schiff and gave it to Weisinger. Being aware of the New Look and not being used to dealing with Batman, Weisinger may not have realized that he was jumping the gun.
The All-Star #8 cover-featured Starman and Dr Mid-Nite because it was the first issue in which they replaced Green Lantern and Flash. I gather that there had been a minor kerfuffle between Detective Comics and All-American Comics, so All-American pulled their Green Lantern and Flash characters out of the Justice Society. They didn’t pull The Atom, probably because he didn’t have his own title. Green Lantern and Flash were acknowledged but would have the “don’t expect to see them” status of Superman and Batman until Detective Comics and All-American Comics officially merged.
Oh, a character called Wonder Woman appeared towards the end of the book. She was well-received.
Sal's cover for a collection of Journey into Mystery reprints.
Sal & 29
While I was already buying/reading a couple of Marvel titles before this one debuted, it is the first Marvel first issue I ever acquired. John Romita Senior inks Sal Buscema's pencils. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Sal's first inked cover was Silver Surfer #4 (1968) which was drawn by his elder brother John.
Sorry, Cap and Falc! Spidey's in the spotlight now, like he needs it!
Plus, I never got used to green Falcon!
Fantastic Four #103. Sal Buscema, inked by John Verpoorten
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