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]

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.