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.
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Richard Willis said:
I seem to remember, in one of Hawkman's many, many retcons, it was revealed that pretty much every DC character with any hawk connotations (such as the western hero Nighthawk) was a reincarnation of the same ancient Egyptian prince. I don't, however, remember that applying to Blackhawk, despite this cover!
Blackhawk couldn't be a reincarnation of Hawkman as they were contemporaries during the WWII era.
Peter Wrexham said:
Richard Willis said:
I seem to remember, in one of Hawkman's many, many retcons, it was revealed that pretty much every DC character with any hawk connotations (such as the western hero Nighthawk) was a reincarnation of the same ancient Egyptian prince. I don't, however, remember that applying to Blackhawk, despite this cover!
We usually would say check in a restaurant. In a bowling alley, not sure. The word would be understood, anyway.
The weird thing to me is that she can apparently tell this is Bill by looking at his skull.
Peter Wrexham said:
Even if Jimmy doesn't fall down the referee should stop the fight because he isn't resisting.
I don't remember Supes concentrating his super-breath so accurately. I guess he can do anything.
Steve W said:
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