A Cover a Day

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.

A final few from my selection of "dynamic duo" covers.

And, as various people have hinted, for next month:

February will be some form of "Romantic Scenes" theme. It looks as though various contributors will add their own additional qualifications to the theme. Steve is planning on attempting to post covers where the woman's name begins with the appropriate letter for the day of the month (A on the 1st, B on the 2nd, etc, with some fiddling to deal with difficult letters and extra days). Lee wants to avoid "expected" romantic encounters (Lois and Superman okay in Action, less so in Lois Lane). Richard advises that scenes should be explicitly romantic, at least those from non-romance titles (e.g. Green Arrow and Black Canary on a date, not fighting a crook). Personally, I'm happy to go with both Lee's and Richard's qualifications, and I may try to follow Steve's idea, at least for as long as I can find ones involving right-letter names.

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Peter Wrexham January 30, 2022 at 7:01pm

Jeff of Earth-J said:

"If only Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker could have got together to write about a meeting like this!"

Not likely since Bram Stoker was born in 1847 and Mary Shelly died in 1851. :)

(signed) Jeff the Troll

Well, yes, that's obviously why I said "if only..."! No, really, of course you can believe me. ;-)

And, since you're writing in your troll persona, here's a dynamic duo (Aquaman and Aqualad) facing fire trolls.
JD DeLuzio January 31, 2022 at 5:44am

One for National Gorilla Suit Day:

And one to set up for next month's theme:
Dave Palmer January 31, 2022 at 8:47am

Time to begin transitioning a bit. Duos who could be romantic couples.

Zip-Jet and his gal Friday, Pat

Captain Atom and Nightshade (and Punch and Jewelee)

Metamorpho and Urania Blackwell
Philip Portelli January 31, 2022 at 12:28pm

My final for the month: three classic Brave & Bold issues!
Peter Wrexham January 31, 2022 at 1:47pm

A final few from my selection of "dynamic duo" covers.

And, as various people have hinted, for next month:

February will be some form of "Romantic Scenes" theme. It looks as though various contributors will add their own additional qualifications to the theme. Steve is planning on attempting to post covers where the woman's name begins with the appropriate letter for the day of the month (A on the 1st, B on the 2nd, etc, with some fiddling to deal with difficult letters and extra days). Lee wants to avoid "expected" romantic encounters (Lois and Superman okay in Action, less so in Lois Lane). Richard advises that scenes should be explicitly romantic, at least those from non-romance titles (e.g. Green Arrow and Black Canary on a date, not fighting a crook). Personally, I'm happy to go with both Lee's and Richard's qualifications, and I may try to follow Steve's idea, at least for as long as I can find ones involving right-letter names.
Richard Willis January 31, 2022 at 3:33pm

Green Lantern in Flash - - - Flash in Green Lantern - - - My last for January
Lee Houston, Junior January 31, 2022 at 4:05pm

For February I will be spotlighting Romantic Duos while mixing that up with my original suggestion about romantic scenes in otherwise non-romantic books.

Meanwhile, to both close out January and transition to February, an interesting cover I recently found for both months.

If I understand the Grand Comics Database correctly, this was an alternate variant for Nightwing #79.

You kind of have Robin teaming up with Nightwing, which is difficult even in a comic book when they're both Dick Grayson, yet they're attempting to visit (court?) Batgirl.

But what really makes my day is the TV Bat-Climb homage, especially with someone (the "late" Alfred?) holding Robin's cape at the end so it looks like they're all allegedly scaling up the side of a building.
- Peter Wrexham > Lee Houston, Junior August 7, 2023 at 5:17pm
  
  February 2022 - Romantic Scenes.
JD DeLuzio February 1, 2022 at 5:59am

Welcome to the Year of the Tiger!

Hopefully, we'll hit the jackpot.
Jeff of Earth-J February 1, 2022 at 6:49am

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