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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My month-ending transition cover. A line-up of JSA members.
Gravely crossing over to next month:
This old Archie digest does not feature a line-up, but it does have a strange, Twilight-Zone-like quality suited to the season, as dim-witted Moose shows a vague awareness of the dark truth underlying Riverdale:
That was a fun month. I have a bunch of left over covers. I’ll see how many I can “repackage” as threes of a kind.
Some covers were good matches to the original theme (“two groups racing toward each other”)
Here's my final set of covers for the month.
Two opposing teams lined up: A-Next versus the Thunder Guard.
One group surrounding another: the Global Guardians vs Justice League America. One of my favourite covers this month, but wouldn't it have been better if the replies were in multiple languages?
"Umm -- Can we talk?"
"Non!"; "Nein!"; "Nyet!"; "Nee!"; "¡No!"; "Nie!"...
Lots of people lined up as victims of "The Mad Piper of Camp Bravo".
I'll make my final selection in honour of the fact that the BBC starts broadcasting the new series in about two hours, by choosing a cover that showcases a lineup of Doctors Who.
Ending this month and starting next month: JSA VS JSA!
Sorry, haven't been posting much this last fortnight - I struggled a bit with the 'lineup' theme. However I'll leave you with this one and hope it hasn't already been posted.
One question about November's theme - are we just restricted to posting JSA covers, or can we post some JLA covers too?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOLKS!
The monsters are all lined up for autographs, but disappointed Dean Martin isn't with him.
In any event, have my first JSA covers ready for tomorrow and personally, I think JSAers on other covers would be okay Steve W.; but I'll leave it to the judges to make an official ruling.
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Steve W said:
The theme was chosen to celebrate the JSA's 80th anniversary, so surely any cover that has a bearing on any part of their history should be acceptable? JSA, JLA, All-Star, Spectre, whatever. I have in mind a couple of covers that seem to me to be relevant, even though they don't directly involve any members of the JSA at all! Heck, if Jeff can find a connection between Baby Huey and the JSA, or Dave can come up with a link with Little Audrey, why not go for it?
November 2021 - JSA 80th Anniversary.
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