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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Dave Palmer said:
March 2022 - Bridges.
This apparently inspired a well-known Jimmy Olsen cover.
The most famous bridge in comics:
This is the first (and one of the few) covers that popped into my mind when "bridges" was suggested. I wanted to post it before someone beat me to it, and I see Richard almost did!
The bridge to Asgard is pretty long, but this bridge is fairly long too...
Before Superboy and Jimmy Olsen, Mort Weisinger edited Thrilling Wonder Stories
Today’s cover
This is the Brooklyn Bridge that Spider-Man is standing atop. Although #121 identifies it as the George Washington Bridge, the only clue Gerry Conway had as to which bridge was used in story was that it ran into and out of Manhattan. Gil Kane certainly knew which bridge he was drawing.
Knowing that someone was going to post AS-M #122 (Jl'73), here's Marvel Team Up #12 (Au'73), the following month which has Spidey battling the Werewolf By Night on top on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge! Rough time for the Web-Head and bridges!
While he never had much luck with them, as far as I can tell, below was Spidey's first encounter with a bridge.
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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