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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Okay then how about The Aristocats? They had two spinoff books as well!
I like how Gold Key had a Crossover Disney-verse where absolutely any Disney character could turn up. I mean, Donald Duck and Scrooge generally lived in a consistent Duckberg-verse in their own comics, but all bets were off everywhere else.
March 2021 - Cats/cat-themed adventurers.
One of the first cat-themed adventurers was also one of the first female superheroes:
Cats...
...and cat-themed adventurers.
Here's the latest version of the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes, together with a reminder of future subjects.
There's still some debate about the "Big Guns" theme for May. Perhaps make it something more like "Heavy Weaponry", so that we can include unwieldy handguns, cannons, big bombs, and more stuff of that nature? Any further thoughts?
Oh, man! Peter "stole" my first choice (JSF #11) right off the bat! Maggie went on to have her own (still uncompleted) mini-seires.
I think “heavy weaponry” gives us some leeway to be creative.
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