Cover Of The Day

[MacNimon]

Today we have some of the DC Thomson Christmas covers from over the years...

The Beezer, from 1988...

Hoot, from 1985...

Sparky, from 1970...

The Beano, also from 1970...

The Topper, from 1985...

The Dandy, from 2002...

Nutty, from 1981...

...and Plug, from 1977...

[MacNimon]

We round off this season of Christmas covers with one final appearance from Dredd...

Merry Drokkin' Christmas, everyone...have a great time!

[Dirk Gently]

Is that Freddie Mercury in the pink dress?

[Stuart Wallis]

I'm going to have to make sure it's not Aunt Dolly!

[MacNimon]

It's been a while since we did this, so here we go with another run of classic covers from years gone by...you'll have seen most of these titles before so I'll just try to showcase different issues and not repeat covers already used.


We'll kick this season off with a 1977 Carlos Ezquerra cover for Marvel's attempt at a war comic, Fury. This series had some brilliant covers, too bad the contents weren't of the same standard or they may have had a hit on their hands...

[Andrew Curnow]

Great cover. Although really, if a place was called Massacre Mountain, would you really want to visit...?

[Stuart Wallis]

It's Fort Boyard for the gormless!

[MacNimon]

Another cover from Carlos Ezquerra today, coincidentally from 1977 again, this time the first cover appearance of Judge Dredd in 2000AD #10. I always remember this particular cover because of the name of the robot...

[MacNimon]

A Land Of The Giants cover today from the second volume of TV21 from 1969.

[Rob McCow]

How bizarre to have a Land of The Giants and not set it on Earth!

[Stuart Wallis]

And to have Dan Dare's Treens with camels' heads!

[MacNimon]

We go way back in time today to 1939, and the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics #27...

[Stuart Wallis]

And a timely choice - 75 years and counting!

[Rob McCow]

Looks like we watched the 60's BATMAN movie inadvertently to celebrate this. What a hoot that was!

[MacNimon]

Sticking with DC for the moment, today we have the first issue of what was planned to be an ongoing series from 1975 but for some unknown reason (rights reasons, presumably) was curtailed after only the single issue...

[Rob McCow]

Ah, the 'Other' Great Detective!

[MacNimon]

Today we have the issue of the controversial weekly Action from October 1976 which was withdrawn from sale a few days after it's release. Pressure had been mounting on publishers IPC regarding the violent content of the comic, which many thought was unsuitable for kids. It was a threatened boycott of other titles which eventually forced them to put the comic on hold, before allowing it to return in a much-watered down format after a gap of 6 weeks.

[MacNimon]

A V For Vendetta cover today from the 11th issue of Warrior from March 1982.

[MacNimon]

An early issue of Jackpot today, from 1979...

[MacNimon]

Back to Marvel today with this Spider-Man cover from 1973. This plotline was touched on in this years Amazing Spider-Man 2 film...

[Rob McCow]

That plotline was also touched on in Spider-Man 2! That guy is always hanging up his web-shooters (unless they're part of his body). Great cover, though it does make you wonder if there will be another issue next week.

[MacNimon]

Batman Monthly #8...from February 1988, todays cover is one of that rare breed of British DC reprints. Although DC have attempted to break into the British market from time to time, they have surprisingly only had a limited amount of success compared to Marvel, who have consistently had UK titles of some sort on the shelves since 1972.

[MacNimon]

A nice Pertwee Doctor Who cover today from TV Action #123, from June 1973

[Andrew Curnow]

Beware spoilers!

[MacNimon]

at Andrew!

Love it!