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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Since today is the last day of November (Nov. 30) where I live, here's my final "Classrooms and Education"-based cover to close out the month.
"Time to transition."
Yes, that's what I was thinking too.
Here's Superboy and his robot teacher in an outdoor classroom (which is, as I said yesterday, I reckon still counts as a classroom).
I'm less sure whether The Vision counts for next month. However, if not, we can at least be impressed by the number of other months where this cover could have been appropriate: May 2019 (Wanted Posters); October 2021 (Lineups); and of course November 2022 (Classrooms).
I think The Vision qualifies,
Archie as class clown and Donald as (apparently) a non-teacher. Now I have to start looking for robot covers. Don't think it will be hard.
It's not ♫Deck Us All With Boston Charlie♫, but I saved this one for last to acknowledge the December holidays.
I know Dilton Doiley has built a few robots in his day but I've yet to find one that made an Archie cover.
In any event, image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
I've found a few Archie robo-covers, so we'll see whether we've found the same ones. This isn't a cover, but:
My last two for November. Sorry, I couldn't find any transitional covers. Nice to see that Archie attends a number of different classes.
Here are a few more robot teacher covers, etc. that I have left over. I hope I don't post something that someone else was hanging on to.
December 2022 - Robots and Cyborgs.
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