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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Debuting in 1964 with a cover by Jack Davis, Creepy was the name of a horror comics magazine by Warren Publishing and originally edited by Russ Jones. Creepy was a black-and-white newsstand publication, not unlike Mad magazine in format. The stories for each issue were introduced by Uncle Creepy. Last issue was #145 in Feb 1983.
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A couple of scary ones for Halloween and to end the month for me.
November 2022 - Classrooms and Education.
Half a day later, a new month
This is the ONLY cover I can think of that fits the "classrooms" theme.
I have enough "school-related" covers to get me through the end of the week.
I'm curious to see what covers others have found.
A particular favorite of mine. Sort of Azumanga Daioh meets Dawn of the Dead
I considered using this cover in MST3K month, but couldn't come up with a sufficiently snarky comment. Two years later, its time has finally come!
The tail end of the index should now look as shown below. I have put the theme down as "Classrooms and Education" as an attempt to include the various ideas for extending the range of relevant covers. Does that work for everyone, or is there a better description?
And what are we going to do in December?
"First and Last Issues" has turned out to be a popular theme. It's at position nine counting by the number of replies in the month. I'm sure that it would be much higher-placed by counting the actual number of covers posted. Not only did the "First and Last" theme require two covers per post, but many of the month's posts featured significantly more than that number.
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