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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September 2022 - Joe Kubert.
Here is a much earlier cover
This is my favorite Joe Kubert cover.
I first saw it as a house ad in another DC comic released that month. I had never seen Flash before, much less Kid Flash, but I had to have that story! I finally found a copy... 30 years later. In retrospect, I'm glad it took me that long. The story was a disappointment, and I'm sure I would have thought so even as a preschooler. Great cover, though!
Jeff of Earth-J said:
A long time ago, I read an article that described the two kinds of comic book covers, those that are akin to movie posters and those that serve as movie trailers. The trailers are the type that present a scene from the story that draw you in because they make you wonder "How did THIS happen?" or "What happens NEXT?" Joe Kubert was a master at that kind of cover. Here, he made you ask BOTH questions!
I loved the run of covers Kubert did for All-Star Squadron.
Joe Kubert revisits an old friend in the late 70s!
Such a great cover! I bought this one off the stands -- couldn't resist!
Philip Portelli said:
It's hard to tell which was Joe's first drawn cover, but he certainly drew and inked a six-page story called "Black-Out" starring Volton in Catman #8 (March 1942). At the time he was only 15 and a half years old and had already inked pages for Archie at MLJ. So he may or may not have drawn this cover, but it's a great place to start.
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