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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Baron: (I don't recall ever seeing a manga volume with a split cover.)
This might qualify:
Richard Willis: The first appearance of Marvel's Sandman.
Issue #32 of DC's most famous Sandman, by a brilliant but now somewhat infamous writer. "A Game of You" has always been one of my favourite installments, and I'm a little sorry that we'll never see it adapted now. One plot/character element appeared in the second season of the series, attached to a different character:
Foreshadowing the Hulk's time in Tales To Astonish!
How about... MORE Gorilla Man!
Forgot to post one of my favorite Badger covers (and the cover to one of my favorite Badger stories) back in May, but here's one by Steve Rude.
This is the earliest, if not very first split cover by Steve Ditko that I could find. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Lee,
Here are a few that predate Tales of Suspense #23, albeit from Charlton.
A ripping good multi-image. We're tentatively going to see the new Spider-man movie this week at the local drive-in.
(It's great, still having a local drive-in)
Unfortunately, that's Mephisto's hand ripping apart the marriage of Peter and Mary Jane, with their consent.
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