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

[Philip Portelli]

The X-Men in Japan!

[Steve W]

This is a pulp cover rather than a comic cover, but I love it just the same.

[Richard Willis]

Dave Palmer said:

The Pacific, maybe even Hawaii before it was part of the US

This Dutch title translates to The Death of Captain Cook, which occurred on the "Big Island" called Hawai'i before it and several other islands became a U.S. territory and later a state.

[Richard Willis]

Two for France.. I say A Tale of Two Cities is France because IIRC most of the action takes place there.

[Richard Willis]

One more for Switzerland

[Dave Palmer]

Let’s check in on Pete and Bonnie one last time.

Pete’s in Egypt

Bonnie’s in the French Alps

and so as not to upset the balance between England and France, here is a cover (I assume) for England (Peter, it’s a few days off from my 21st birthday, the 10th, but close; no matter where I am in the world I never have to think about how to write my birthday, it’s always 10/10).

[JD DeLuzio]

Another generic Africa, and a bit of a stretch for next month, since it's already self-consciously "goofy," but still:

I get that the popular children's comic from India may be made by people who hear the word, "tinkle," a little differently than some cultures, but  to use yellow as the predominant colour! Was the artist a fan of the Whizzer? And look at the look in their eyes! Just what does that gorilla intend to do with his really large banana?

Yeah, I can do better. That's for next month.

August is coming to and end! As the say in Sweden:

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Peter Wrexham said:

And a reminder of the definition of next month's "MST3K" theme.

Is there a list os the Already-settled-upon topics coming up?

Seems to me I submitted several a year or so ago I never saw voted upon.

[Richard Willis]

My last two for August, both apparently Africa

[Peter Wrexham]

I started the month with this:

Peter Wrexham said on August 1, 2020 at 12:41pm:

I'll end the month with the original covers for three of the stories reprinted in that issue.

"Evil in England"

"Crime in Canada"

"Illegality in Italy".  The Giant cover doesn't actually mention Italy, but this story was one of the ones reprinted.

[Peter Wrexham]

Jeff of Earth-J said:

Is there a list os the Already-settled-upon topics coming up?
Seems to me I submitted several a year or so ago I never saw voted upon.

The next three months are:

• September - MST3K
• October - Vampires and Werewolves
• November - Giants

You made this suggestion last year.

Jeff of Earth-J said on May 29, 2019 at 8:40am:

Another suggestion: two groups of heroes (or a group of heroes and a group of villains) lined up to fight each other.

Actually, any of Julius Schwartz's list of cover elements that sell comics books would be good: motorcycles, apes, the color purple, a big burning question, etc.

We've since used motorcycles and apes.

Other suggestions that I've got noted include:

• Cats & cat-themed adventurers
• Characters wielding unfeasibly large guns
• Bridges
• Mothers & Fathers
• Falling down
• Robots
• New costumes (either permanent or one-shots)
• Planes
• Time travel

There may have been more that I've forgotten.

[Philip Portelli]

Last one for August!

The reprinted stories have Jimmy Olsen in London vs the Purple Pimpernel! Yikes! That's bad!

And Lois Lane in a South American jungle!