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	26	310
Jun 2022	1394/9	George Perez	19	227
Jul 2022	1413/8	Parents	30	356
Aug 2022	1443/4	Fairgrounds and Carnivals
Sep 2022		Joe Kubert
Oct 2022		First and last issues
Nov 2022		Classrooms?

[Peter Wrexham]

Nice one, JD!

I've posted my last cover of the month, leaving about a couple of dozen in hand that seemed to be too repetitive or uninteresting to be worth using.  However, a comment on the "Tips on Using the Board" discussion has just helped me to work out how it's still possible to include animated emojis in comments.

And there's one that needs to be posted before September ends!

[Steve W]

I'll sign out of September with a couple of bridges across to December - in other words Ape covers from foreign language comics. This first cover is from Brazil.

[Steve W]

And the next is from Germany.

[Steve W]

And I'll sign off with this last one, given that it's 11.35pm here.  See you all in October!

[Richard Willis]

[Steve W]

I have to start with this one. What a moving and evocative cover this was!

[JD DeLuzio]

Sooner or later, nearly everyone gets involved in cemeteries and haunted houses:

[Dave Palmer]

I’ll start with these two, which seem to go together.  Although he most likely did not draw/paint either, LB Cole was likely involved with both editorially.

[Philip Portelli]

If there was one Legionnaire that was guaranteed to survive, it was Superboy!

Don't know how the baddies thought that they could rewrite history!

[Steve W]

And talking of Superboy here's issue 158 - an early Neal Adams cover - and anyone who's read this will know (spoiler alert) that his parents are certainly not alive, and that therefore this is a kind of tomb.

[Peter Wrexham]

Philip, welcome back to the Cover-A-Day Cave!  It's good to have your contributions here again!

The theme of the month is Haunted Houses (and Graves).  How about a Haunted Skyscraper instead?

[Peter Wrexham]

Here's an updated version of the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes.

Date	Page	Theme (and clickable link)	Pages
Oct 2016	1	Letter A	19
Dec 2016	20	Letter B	17
Jan 2017	37	Letter C	18
Feb 2017	55	Letter D	17
Mar 2017	72	Letter E	15
Apr 2017	87	Letter F	15
May 2017	102	Letter G	13
Jun 2017	115	Letter H	16
Jul 2017	131	Letter I	12
Aug 2017	143	Letter J	16
Sep 2017	159	Letter K	19
Oct 2017	178	Letter L	24
Nov 2017	202	Letter M	24
Dec 2017	226	Letter N	19
Jan 2018	245	Letter O	21
Feb 2018	266	Letter P	25
Mar 2018	291	Letters Q & R	20
Apr 2018	311	Letter S	22
May 2018	333	Superman’s 80th anniversary	21
Jun 2018	354	Letter T	21
Jul 2018	375	Letter U	17
Aug 2018	392	Letter V	19
Sep 2018	411	Letter W	20
Oct 2018	431	Letter X	15
Nov 2018	446	Letter Y	13
Dec 2018	459	Letter Z	13
Jan 2019	472	Person being carried	16
Feb 2019	488	Real people	17
Mar 2019	505	Homages/parodies	19
Apr 2019	524	Green-skinned people	17
May 2019	541	Wanted posters	17
Jun 2019	558	Boxing rings	15
Jul 2019	573	Empty uniforms	15
Aug 2019	588	Beaches	25
Sep 2019	613	Apes	28
Oct 2019	641	Haunted houses/graves
Nov 2019		Motor bikes
Dec 2019		Foreign covers
Jan 2020		Playing cards?

I've tentatively added "Playing cards" as the subject for next January, subject to further discussion as to whether this needs to be generalised to other forms of gambling.

You'll probably notice that "Apes" satisfactorily surpassed the previous greatest number of pages posted in a month.  Could I suggest that we let this record stand, at least for now?  There's no need to post every cover that matches the theme of the month.  Personally, I find it more fun to pick and choose, and try to post covers that also have some intrinsic interest, too.