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.

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
Jun 2022		George Perez
Jul 2022		Parents
Aug 2022		Fairgrounds/Carnivals

[Peter Wrexham]

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!

[Peter Wrexham]

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:

Another Daredevil

[Richard Willis]

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.

[Dave Palmer]

Let’s get Robin in the game.

[Philip Portelli]

Cute cover! Too bad there's no story to go with it!

And another one for Superman!

[Steve W]

Here's another "puppet" cover. This one must surely give the highest number of covers to Supes.

[Steve W]

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.

[Peter Wrexham]

"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.

[Peter Wrexham]

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.

[Philip Portelli]

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.

[Richard Willis]

Motorbikes is fine with me.

[Richard Willis]