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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In the midst of a long run of John Buscema Fantastic Four covers, Sal sneaks one in!
Daredevil appears to be missing
In the 1960s the Inhumans had a short lived backup series and the Silver Surfer's title began in 1968.
The question of Daredevil being omitted from this cover wasn’t answered. See this Wikipedia article:
Marvel Knights - Wikipedia
As part of Marvel’s recovery from bankruptcy, the Marvel Knights imprint stories were produced by a separate company. This included Daredevil.
Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook was published in early 2006 when this was still the case.
And where is Forbush-Man?
Almost didn't make it today. Here's Sal inking his brother John during Buscema's brief return to the Fantastic Four. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Since Johnny is “stealing”* Ben’s long-time girlfriend, Alicia, how much control by her step-father is needed for Ben to cream Johnny?
*Can you really steal a human being who has free will?
I've never read this part of their story, so cut me some slack.
Here is what I had to say about #300 in the "Post-Byrne Fantastic Four" discussion:
"#299-300: Issue #300 presents the wedding of Johnny Storm and Alicia Masters. A relationship between Johnny and Alicia is something I never knew I wanted until it was revealed that they were sleepijng together in #277. It had previously been established that Alicia was only 19 years old when she first met Ben Grimm. She hadn't even been out of the apartment she shared with her step-father very often for three years before that, and she was almost certainly a virgin at that time. Whatever sex life she and Ben may or may not have had by then, I didn't think it was right (as soon as I stopped to think about it) that a healthy young woman in her prime shouldn't have an ordinary sex life."
All this is rendered moot, of course, in #357 when it is revealed that "Alicia" is a llυяʞƧ.
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