A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

[Peter Wrexham]

Hey, Peter, there's another double Plas cover I know of but I'm saving it for you!

Oh, I wasn't previously aware of another.  However, after a quick trawl through the GCD, I've found this one, (DC, 2004).  Is it the one you were thinking of, Philip?

[Philip Portelli]

Nope, the one I'm thinking of came much, much earlier!

Peter Wrexham said:

Hey, Peter, there's another double Plas cover I know of but I'm saving it for you!

Oh, I wasn't previously aware of another.  However, after a quick trawl through the GCD, I've found this one, (DC, 2004).  Is it the one you were thinking of, Philip?

[Randy Jackson]

Kyle Baker's Plastic Man was really quite good in my estimation. 

[Jeff of Earth-J]

[Richard Willis]

Some of these dopplegangers are not dopplegangers. I may be able to find more later in the month based upon that.

[Richard Willis]

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Another "doppleganger" who is not a doppleganger...

[Peter Wrexham]

Okay, one more double Plastic Man cover (Quality Comics, 1956).  If this still isn't the one you meant, Philip, I think you're entitled to post it instead of me!

[Philip Portelli]

Sorry, I meant Plastic Man #13 (Jl'76) which was one of the silliest comics I read as a kid. It also brought back a Silver Age great with a nice homage to the past. Plus it had a great title, "If I Kill Me, Will I Die?"

[Lee Houston, Junior]

A quick question to Phillip Portelli or anyone who can answer it, concerning Superboy 61.

Having never read the story, not even in reprint, is that supposed to be a young Clark Kent sitting in the front row, far right, on the cover?

[Steve W]

This is what can happen when you meet yourself after you've aged 20 years.  

[Philip Portelli]

As far as I can tell, yes.

That then leads to the question: Is that supposed to be Superboy?

Lee Houston, Junior said:

A quick question to Phillip Portelli or anyone who can answer it, concerning Superboy 61.

Having never read the story, not even in reprint, is that supposed to be a young Clark Kent sitting in the front row, far right, on the cover?