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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The raven on the cover of JLA #67 is not Matthew from the Dreaming, Since all of the Sandman and Dreaming covers are very abstract, I came up empty. I've included a second picture showing Matthew.
Puny Hulk smashes plague rats!
That JLA #67 cover reminds me very much of this one:
I wasn't reading much DC at the time, but I biought this issue for the cover alone. That's something I used to do quite frequently back when comic were, say, 60¢ apiece. I still haven't read the comic, but I love that cover.
That's one big bat!
Ok, fair enough - no ghosts. I can get as much mileage out of rats.
Well, if we're doing rats...
Okay, if it's rodent day... ♫Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?♫ (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
X-Men #34. The return of Tyrannus from Hulk #5.
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