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.

Fairgrounds/Carnivals

Date	Page/Reply	Theme (and clickable link)	Pages	Replies
Oct 2016	1/1	Letter A	19	228
Dec 2016	20/1	Letter B	17	207
Jan 2017	37/4	Letter C	18	214
Feb 2017	55/2	Letter D	17	208
Mar 2017	72/6	Letter E	15	178
Apr 2017	87/4	Letter F	15	184
May 2017	102/8	Letter G	13	157
Jun 2017	115/9	Letter H	16	195
Jul 2017	131/12	Letter I	12	133
Aug 2017	143/1	Letter J	16	194
Sep 2017	159/3	Letter K	19	237
Oct 2017	178/12	Letter L	24	285
Nov 2017	202/9	Letter M	24	280
Dec 2017	226/1	Letter N	19	236
Jan 2018	245/9	Letter O	21	245
Feb 2018	266/7	Letter P	25	295
Mar 2018	291/2	Letters Q & R	20	243
Apr 2018	311/5	Letter S	22	270
May 2018	333/11	Superman’s 80th anniversary	21	250
Jun 2018	354/9	Letter T	21	250
Jul 2018	375/7	Letter U	17	207
Aug 2018	392/10	Letter V	19	228
Sep 2018	411/10	Letter W	20	233
Oct 2018	431/3	Letter X	15	180
Nov 2018	446/3	Letter Y	13	156
Dec 2018	459/3	Letter Z	13	156
Jan 2019	472/3	Person being carried	16	190
Feb 2019	488/1	Real people	17	214
Mar 2019	505/11	Homages/parodies	19	224
Apr 2019	524/7	Green-skinned people	17	207
May 2019	541/10	Wanted posters	17	201
Jun 2019	558/7	Boxing rings	15	180
Jul 2019	573/7	Empty uniforms	15	177
Aug 2019	588/4	Beaches	25	297
Sep 2019	613/1	Apes	28	340
Oct 2019	641/5	Haunted houses/graves	21	250
Nov 2019	662/3	Motor bikes	21	254
Dec 2019	683/5	Foreign language covers	17	209
Jan 2020	700/10	Playing cards/tabletop games	23	275
Feb 2020	723/9	Valentines and Cupids	22	259
Mar 2020	745/4	Statues	21	256
Apr 2020	766/8	Elephants	22	263
May 2020	788/7	Heroes & villains cooperating	17	198
Jun 2020	805/1	The Moon	26	322
Jul 2020	831/11	Flags & patriotic symbols	18	215
Aug 2020	849/10	Foreign locations (non-US)	20	233
Sep 2020	869/3	MST3K (with commentary)	24	292
Oct 2020	893/7	Vampires and Werewolves	20	245
Nov 2020	913/12	Giants	24	286
Dec 2020	937/10	Snow & winter scenes	24	289
Jan 2021	961/11	Doppelgängers	32	377
Feb 2021	993/4	Movies	23	275
Mar 2021	1016/3	Cats/cat-themed adventurers	22	263
Apr 2021	1038/2	Dogs/dog-themed adventurers	25	305
May 2021	1063/7	Big guns/Heavy weaponry	25	302
Jun 2021	1088/9	Dinosaurs/Time Travel	28	338
Jul 2021	1116/11	Big Questions/Question Marks	28	330
Aug 2021	1144/5	Highways, Travel etc	19	232
Sep 2021	1163/9	Favourite Covers/Comics	28	330
Oct 2021	1191/3	Lineups	21	260
Nov 2021	1212/11	JSA 80th Anniversary	23	269
Dec 2021	1235/4	Logos in the action	26	317
Jan 2022	1261/9	Dynamic Duos	29	348
Feb 2022	1290/9	Romantic Scenes	26	313
Mar 2022	1316/10	Bridges	29	339
Apr 2022	1345/1	Unexpected Green	23	286
May 2022	1368/11	Neal Adams	26	310
Jun 2022	1394/9	George Perez	19	227
Jul 2022	1413/8	Parents
Aug 2022		Fairgrounds/Carnivals

[Lee Houston, Junior]

I was shocked to hear of Neal Adams' passing yesterday, but do we really want to wait another month to celebrate his legacy?

Maybe we can agree to set aside any Parents Covers done by Adams for his birthdate in June. There's bound to be a couple of Superboy with Ma and Pa Kent, along with at least some Batman and Robin (Bruce Wayne is Richard Grayson's legal guardian of record), Batman with Commissioner Gordon and Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon, or Batman with Ra's and/or Talia al Ghul covers (Bruce and Talia are the parents and Ra's the grandfather of Damian Wayne), let alone maybe an Aquaman/Mera/Aquababy cover that could be posted June 15th.

In any event, to close out April, an unexpected green clad menace for the World's Finest team to face AND a Neal Adams' cover too!

(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Richard Willis]

I already posted "green" covers while everyone else was asleep, but these three are too good to waste.

[Steve W]

Perhaps I could put it this way: the comic artist who I loved more than Kirby, Ditko and Kubert combined, has just died. If I was to list the ten most important influences on my life, he would be one of them. I feel it's our duty (as a contemporary comic cover posting group) to honor the guy. Unlike other themes it won't take me any time at all to round up 31 magnificent Adams covers.

Parents, as a theme works well for me in June because it's Father's day on June 19th, in England as well as the US. 

But, I'm happy to listen to other points of view. 

[Richard Willis]

Let's just agree that Neal Adams covers will be for May. (Peter has decided to sit out May. JD and I had no objection.)

Parents will be June.

Fairgrounds and Carnivals will be July.

[Peter Wrexham]

Sounds good to me, Richard.  Here's one final "Unexpected Green" from me before I go quiet (though I will be back briefly to provide an updated index of themes).

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Steve W said:

Perhaps I could put it this way: the comic artist who I loved more than Kirby, Ditko and Kubert combined, has just died. If I was to list the ten most important influences on my life, he would be one of them. I feel it's our duty (as a contemporary comic cover posting group) to honor the guy.

Well said. 

Richard Willis said:

Let's just agree that Neal Adams covers will be for May.

Parents will be June.

Fairgrounds and Carnivals will be July.

Sounds like a plan.

[Richard Willis]

I discovered that I have a transition cover. GCD tells me that Neal Adams inked this one over Curt Swan's pencils.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Here is a SUGGESTION:

Peter Wrexham said:

I will be back briefly to provide an updated index of themes.

Why not maintain the index in the initial post to this thread? That way, it's readily accessible at any time to anyone who would care to consult it without having to search. You couldn't edit it, but Steve could. All you would have to do is PM it to him and he could add it to the bottom of the post. Then one of you could post "Index updated with April 2022 results" or something. Just a thought. 

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Since the floor seems to be open to them, here's ANOTHER SUGGESTION:

Why don't we have other months dedicated to a specific artist?

Sometime after Neal Adams we should honor George Perez because he sadly announced late last year that his remaining time on this mortal coil is limited.

But in future months we could spotlight other creators past and present like (in no particular order) Curt Swan, Mike Grell, Dave Cockrum, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Joe Kubert, Alex Ross, Jack Kirby, etc.

Thoughts? Feedback?

[JD DeLuzio]

I think we should see how this next month goes. Even with it being appropriate to make next month a tribute, I can't get fired up about doing an artist's work for a month. This will be the first month where I doubt I'll look for subs if someone posts something I was going to post. I'll likely just skip a day. But I know a lot of people are huge fans of particular artists so, as a suggestion, it has merit. A month of famous artists just isn't my cup of Lee.

[Richard Willis]

[JD DeLuzio]

It's sort of a Maypole.... He's probably ready to call "Mayday/M'aider"