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 "A Cover A Day: Nominations, Themes and Statistics" thread. Click here to view the thread, or here to go to its last reply.
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Tailgunner Jo is a little-known six-issue limited series published in 1988/9 that I really liked. Here is the GCD description:
Here are a couple of covers from the series. Her father, Lars Gunnar, is highlighted on the first, Jo and her fantasy world on the second.
As indicated by my use of the Batman-Spectre Detective Comics meeting earlier this month, for me sometimes it isn't always the art per se but another matter.
As time passes, technology improves. Over the course of the three part mini-series Underworld Unleashed, DC tried out some new shades of green that I liked. In time these hues have appeared in other places, most notably Green Arrow, Green Lantern(s), and Swamp Thing, naturally.
Whether or not these three can also count as transition covers, I'll leave to the "judges".
Not sure I'd consider Neron the "Absolute Evil", for he has yet to fight Darkseid.
Several times over the course of any company's publishing history we have had "Hell on Earth!"
Comics Code Authority Approved or otherwise.
But you have to admire the hutzpah of the blurb for part 3, considering by then I had already heard of Doctor Fredric Wertham.
(Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Transition covers? This is a favorite of mine, it exemplifies the October theme, and it's purple. (I think it's also been used before, but I wasn't about to let that stand in the way of a good transition.)
So we've arrived at the last day of the month and I've only posted 27 covers so far, meaning I still have 3 to post. Weirdly they all feature women/girls in starring roles, although I can't say that this was a conscious decision.
This is my favourite Lois Lane cover. I can almost sense her frustration in being let down by Supes and her decision to start a new life without him. Mushy I know but moving nonetheless.
Followed by this 60s homage to jealous, vengeful, spiteful girls, angry with their male counterparts. I realise that the cover is reinforcing a negative stereotype and it's a stereotype that I deplore, but it's still a great cover!
And finally, this one. Nowadays, I recognise it as evidence that comic publishers in the 60s were anti-feminist and misogynist, but at the time I thought it was proof that girls put their appearance before their duty! Shows how times have changed (and very much for the better!).
I always get a chuckle out of this cover. It reminds me of Blazing Saddles because it looks like Blackhawk is holding the gun to his own head--the sleeve is blue/black and Blackhawk wears blue/black; Hitler is wearing brown. Looking closely one can see through the logo that Blackhawks arms are above his head and chained. Obviously a coloring error.
Here is a cover from a series that I did enjoy. It transitions us to next month and its purple or purplish.
Wasn't ♫Der Fuhrer's Face♫ (Blackhawk cover) a Spike Jones and His City Slickers' song?
Anyway, one last cover for September, because I like the sight gag.
No indication of whether or not the Ref is also blind though.
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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