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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"We can't leave the month without posting a Steranko cover!"
Or two? (Captain America #110. previous page.)
And still more giant footprints. The most inexplicable thing about this cover is how come Supes is stymied by the appearance of a large footprint in the ground? Surely he's encountered such things at least a few times before in his long and eventful life...
I'm assuming this head is attached to a giant.
And this one's very similar to Richard's "Plight of the Human Cocoons" cover above.
My last one for this month. Here's to a wonderful December!
And Peter, I'm really hoping we've broken the covers record this month. I've posted at least one cover every day this month which is the first time I've managed that for ages! I eagerly await the cover count!
Steve W said:
He hasn't just encountered such things. He is such things!
He's a flying indestructible strongman with laser eyes whose best friend dresses up like a bat and manages to keep a cave of complex devices functional with only a teenager and a butler to help out. Why does the existence of anything surprise Superman?
It's like those old eps of Sesame Street where no one would believe Big Bird had a friend named Mr. Snuffleupagus. As I wrote elsewhere, "On a street inhabited by blue monsters, a numerically-obsessed vampire, and a garbage-can dwelling Grouch, why did anyone consider the sentient avian's furry proboscidean friend to be far-fetched?"
December 2020 - Snow and winter scenes.
Theme of the month: "Snow and Winter Scenes".
Let's start with some winter wackiness (also, I guess, another giant).
The latest version of the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes is, I'm sorry to say, a bit of a disappointment for Steve. November's "Giants" theme came nowhere near overturning the massive lead held by October's "Vampires and werewolves" . I'll itemise the themes with the greatest number of replies after the table.
The top six themes have been:
So I'm afraid "Giants" didn't even get into the top five :-(
Of course, I may have made a mistake in my calculations. Feel free to point out any errors!
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