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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FF 33, the first time, as far as I know, Kirby used a photo collage on a cover.
In September 1964, sixteen-year-old me bought it, even though I didnt like the cover. I'm pretty sure that this is his first such cover.
He's not just hip, he is Super Hip!
The Mates, analogues of the Beatles as superheroes in the Swinging Sixties!
When I first discovered the Teen Titans during their late 1970s revival, Donna Troy was already wearing her more famous costume but here's Wonder Girl swinging 1960s debut of that outfit, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Not sure if it qualifies, but it was certainly hip at the time.
This was the very first cover rhat occurred to me when the beatnik/punk/hippie month was suggested...
I think we can stretch the definition enough to fit Melvin in
"Whoopee caps" could be a category, except we'd just all post Jughead and Melvin.
A whoopee cap and a comic book cover
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