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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It's not quite as lofty as a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, but I guess a whoopee cap and a comic book would be nice, too.
This is interesting! Dell's short-lived Mad rip-off, Wild!, ran this cover in 1968...
...two years before Mad used this one:
Jack Davis's cover is better-realized, with its crowd of hippies and protestors. Scarpelli's mixes hippies with a broad range of types, including a beatnik, a surfer, a biker, and, um, a scuba diver? Wild!'s mascot was "Orton Leffield." He and the mag apparently only lasted three issues.
Dark X-Men
A World War ll hippie/beatnik ?!?
A visitor from the future?
Maynard G. Krebs and Dobie Gillis get updated for the late 60s as WINDY AND WILLY!
Yesterday we had Jimmy and the hippies, today Jimmy and the punks!
Almost didn't make it today but here's a cover I'm sure all you cats will dig, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. As Phillip pointed out above, DC reused at least the cover gags from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis for Windy and Willy. Unless someone on this board has read those issues, I don't know about the interior stories.
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