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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Two tryouts for a series that AFAIK never happened
Once again, war maybe hell, but it can also be weird!
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
As a bridge to October's "First and last issues" theme, Joe Kubert's covers for issues #1 and #3 of the limited series Jack Hunter from Blackthorne.
P.S. What about November? I've got about 40 covers lined up for use if we do go ahead with the suggested "Classrooms" theme. Or "Classrooms and Education"? Or "Classrooms and Schools"?
If we don't go for any of these, could we decide on an alternative before too much longer?
So for October we're to post the first and last cover of a specific title instead of A cover a day?
Okay then, my bridge work...
The first and last covers for DC's run of Tarzan, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Unfortunately Joe Kubert only did the first. Alfredo Alcala drew the last while Kubert wrote the script and inked penciler Frank Thorne on the interior art since #258 was a reprint of the main story from #216 because Kubert was uncertain of DC maintaining the license, which they lost to Marvel.
Can't quite make it "first" and "last," but close: here is the first issue of Weird War Tales and the penultimate issue.
In between there were many fine covers by Joe Kubert. Here is a very self-serving example. Self-serving in that Joe Kubert and me are both listed on this issuer's GCD page.
This has been a fun month, especially being able to watch Kubert's art evolve over the years. He is one of the giants of the field.
The first and last issues of Blitzkrieg, a book I still can't believe got published!
I'm not. Blitzkreig was just warmed-over "The Haunted Tank" stories.
My last for September is a Viking Prince cover that hasn't been posted.
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