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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Not exactly the Joker and Luthor here!
Marvel's initial foray into trade paperbacks included this little gem after Origins of Marvel Comics and Sons of Origins... (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Somewhere the Leader is crying!
Yesterday I chose Bat-Mite and Mr Mxyzptlk, today it's Impossible Man and Mr Mxyzptlk!
World's Finest #173. Two Face and Kralik. Don't remember Kralik- did he emerge from the Phantom Zone?
No, he emerged from Jim Shooter's imagination. This issue of World's Finest is Kralik's first and only appearance. See Comics Archeology for a snarky write-up of the story.
The Comics Archeology story was interesting.
I was afraid you were going to say that Kralik emerged from a different part of Jim Shooter.
Somewhere Amalak, the Annihilator, Elton Craig, Moon Man, Super-Menace and Zha-Vam are crying!
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