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.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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July 2023 - John Romita, Sr.
Getting in Early with a Romita cover that I hope that no one else has thought of:
My first issue of Amazing Spider-Man!
JR's first two issues of Spider-Man
When JR snr took over from Ditko I was not impressed. One of the reasons was on that second cover.. Where the chest webbing joins the belt is too thick ( I was 13 years old, these things were important).Of course after another couple of issues I thought he was the greatest Spider-man artist ever. Even today I can't choose between the two.
Richard Willis said:
A majestic image of Spider-Man.
John Romita's Spider-Man "try-out" issue...
My self-imposed challenge for this topic: I'm not going to post any John Romita Sr. covers from the Spidey-centric titles (ASM, Spectacular Spider-Man, reprint books such as Marvel Tales, etc.).
Ms. Marvel #1, cover-dated Jan.1977; featuring Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel, along with Peter Parker, MJ, JJJ, and the Scorpion!
Hey, do we have a topic for an upcoming month... ah, maybe not. :)
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