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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Steve W said:
My last posts for June
July 2020 - Flags and patriotic symbols.
July 1: Happy Canada Day!
JD has started the month with the Maple Leaf, and Richard lead with Old Glory. I'll take the same path.
Here's an updated version of the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes, including the subjects agreed for future months.
June had 310 replies, more than any previous month except last September, with its wildly popular "Apes" theme.
Flag-waving with the Justice Society of America!
Are we doing the flags of countries only? Not just any flag or banner? Either way this one has the Capitol Building with the Flag!
And just to be on the safe side!
There are plenty of variations of this cover out there (actually over 50)
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