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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To follow on from your story about Led Zeppelin in the UK, Steve, my final covers of the month are from British comics.
Firstly, a couple of encounters from 1983 between Judge Dredd and werewolves. My money's on the Judge!
My very last cover of the month is from Beano #4059, and shows Minnie the Minx as a vampire confronting the horrific "Invasion of the Normals". She's evidently as disgusted as Steve's grandchildren are about the state of Hallowe'en!
I'm quietly confident that this will be the most up-to-date comic ever to have appeared in this discussion, as it bears a cover date of today, 31-Oct-20 (though it actually came out a few days ago).
November 2020 - Giants.
November 1st, a new month and a new theme: Giants.
It occurs to me that the theme could refer to either comics about giants, or giant comics. I've been assuming the former, but this cover works either way.
(Yes, I'm still watching this show, although I haven't posted about it lately.)Jimmy Olsen as the Giant
Turtle Man and the predecessor in Superboy
As I said before, Marvel Triple Action #22 (which reprinted Avengers #28), was one of those early books that had a lifelong impact on me. It was the basis of my fondness for Hank Pym and of his Goliath identity in particular. I can't swear by it but it might have been my first exposure to the character.
And I much prefer his blue & yellow outfit to his later red & blue!
Pym wasn't Marvel's only Goliath:
I like this Land of the Giants cover better, for the size contrast and the cat
Oh, I know that!
JD DeLuzio said:
I picked the one above simply because it was the first issue. I have a cat who loves me, but I have no delusions as to what would happen if I were suddenly reduced to the size of her favorite food.
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