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.
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 |
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Jul 2022 | Parents | ||||||
Aug 2022 | Fairgrounds/Carnivals |
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Hmm - I wonder if we could have done a whole month of puppets, dummies and mannequins?
I'll count Kento the mad magician and the stone-age Superman toward Superman's total, but not Lois going whip-happy (as Dave says, it's only a painted uniform).
Flash is starting to lag behind. Time to bring out some that I've been holding in reserve.
So, unless I've miscounted somewhere, it's now [pause for drumroll] 23 covers each!
I've just spotted that Richard had already used one of the Daredevil covers that I posted on 23rd to demonstrate Kingpin's fondness for handling bits of super-hero uniform. My apologies for that, it was careless of me.
Richard Willis said on July 17, 2019:
Following up on my earlier comment: The Golden Age Hawkman and The Atom never had their own books, so continuing their numbering wasn't as option. They followed the example of Green Lantern #1 with Justice League of America #1 and The Atom #1 (no number on the cover). By the time Hawkman got his own title they actually put the number on the cover. By then they were competing with a rising Marvel Comics, which had demonstrated that #1 on a cover didn't hurt sales.
With reference to the choice of covers in November - foreign covers v motorbikes - why don't we put it to the vote? There are six or seven regular contributors to this thread. Let's all take a vote, by the end of this month.
Also re foreign language covers - I would suggest that if we do take this option, we place some limitations on it - for example, only superhero covers in a foreign language, otherwise we may be inundated.
"Lets get Robin in the game".
Good grief, Dave, that's impressive! I was only counting Superman and Flash appearances, as they are so far ahead of everyone else, but I've now gone back to do a quick re-scan of the month's covers to check for Robin. Including Phil's latest World's Finest cover, I think Robin has 11 appearances, which is fairly impressive. Sadly, he's not only well behind our leaders, he's also just behind Batman on 12 (including that same WF cover).
They are both still way behind Flash (23) and Superman (25 including the WF cover and Steve W's latest), so I don't think the dynamic duo or anyone else is likely to overtake our two leaders. Please, don't anyone take that as a challenge! I'm regretting that I ever started this record-keeping.
So as not to mess up the above statistics, here's an empty costume belonging to someone not previously seen this month. This also demonstrates that not everyone feels it necessary to dump their costume in a bin when quitting.
I'd vote for motorbikes (maybe foreign covers at a later date?).
Steve W said:
With reference to the choice of covers in November - foreign covers v motorbikes - why don't we put it to the vote? There are six or seven regular contributors to this thread. Let's all take a vote, by the end of this month.
Also re foreign language covers - I would suggest that if we do take this option, we place some limitations on it - for example, only superhero covers in a foreign language, otherwise we may be inundated.
I would go for motorbikes, too. Actually any atypical vehicle would be fine with me so no Batmobile, Fantasti-Car, Arrow-plane, Skull-Cycle, etc.
Motorbikes is fine with me.