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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Brave and Bold #30. The third and final tryout for the team before getting their own title four months later.
It took four months to decide. In the late 60s DC was debuting new titles in Showcase and the next month their own title came out. They didn't wait for sale info and letters. Not surprisingly, they didn't last long.
The Beagle Boys meet Mad Madam Mim.
Not exactly super-villains, more super-nuisances...
The cover spotlight was on the new hero's (brief) debut, but there are three supervillains in the background. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The original WANTED: The World's Most Dangerous Villains!
Doctor Doom versus the Red Skull!
(Who else could make you root for Doom?)
The Spirit #30
At least three villains here, since Medusa was only pretending at this point. Agatha Harkness has a rather problematic history, across media, regarding her status: hero, anti-hero, villain.
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