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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The first issue of Super Friends featured the Super Foes: the Penguin, Toyman, the Cheetah, Poison Ivy and the Human Flying Fish!
It probably was the first time I saw Toyman and the Cheetah and I was thrilled to see that Aquaman had another super-villain beyond Black Manta, Ocean Master and the Fisherman. And, despite being in a book meant for children, the Human Flying Fish came off as a nasty piece of work!
I bet that Wendy and Marvin really have those villains quaking in their boots.
(or shoes and spats)
Well, there were Junior Super Foes for them to fight: Chick, Toyboy, Kitten, Honeysuckle and Sardine.
Aquaman also faced a "Terrible Trio", even less well-known than Batman's. Aquaman #24 (December 1965).
An interesting four part story started in Batman 291, but only this cover featured all the suspects. Luthor was there because he claimed to have killed Batman accidentally during his latest attempt to kill Superman. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Maybe the real killer was... Batman!
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #30 and Classics Illustrated #30
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