A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

[Steve W]

"You have invaded the past with your devilish devices!" Strikes me as a very observant thing to say for a man who surely couldn't have had any real concept of the ability to time travel.

 

[Steve W]

[Steve W]

And my last one for June. Apologies if anyone's already posted it.

[Richard Willis]

JD DeLuzio said:

Dave Palmer said:

and a cover to transition to next month

Another long-term resident about to be pushed out by the Jurassification of his neighborhood.

[Peter Wrexham]

July 2021 - Big Questions/Question Marks.

[JD DeLuzio]

It's Canada Day!

A problematic Canada Day this year, to be sure, so I'll start this month with a problematic Canadian superhero:

[Dave Palmer]

[Richard Willis]

[Steve W]

As soon as this month's theme was suggested, this was the cover that sprang to my mind.  It's always the same - I get a clear picture of one particular cover as soon as I hear the theme - the rest of the month is a blank!  I loved this cover - we spent hours at school coming up with possible phrases that the two girls might come up with.

[Philip Portelli]

Batman even teamed up with a "?"...twice!