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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Here's a classic homage with the villains in the spotlight. But like Cosmic Boy before him, I don't understand why Cosmic King is wearing a helmet when his hands are bare. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Black Cat #30 and Blackhawk #30
Fascist villains popping up everywhere:
I had intended this #30 for the D-Day anniversary, but it remains relevant.
Time to monkey around again!
At DC, The Joker was the first villain to get their own title, beating The Secret Society of Super-Villains by a year and Catwoman by decades. Overall, the Silver/Bronze Age version was better than latter editions in my humble opinion, for he was at times more concerned about the crime and the comedy than the body count. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Marvel Two In One #30---The second appearance of SPIDER-WOMAN and the Thing goes to Great Britain!
Superman's "Terrible Trio" consisted of Luthor, Toyman and Prankster. Here's the return of Batman's "Terrible Trio", in Detective #221 (November 1963).
Two Green Lanterns numbered 30
Mystery, Inc. have faced a lot of villains, most of whom have roughly the same mo.
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