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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I'll let the group decide if it counts. There's something in the cover featuring Big (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) Ben but, let me just say this:
that would make one heck of a comic book!
Steve W said:
September 2020 - MST3K (with commentary).
Spider-girl on a September's morn, but, judging from that neck, I rather think this incarnation was bit by a radioactive giraffe. And is this her impersonation of the Flash?
"You made this suggestion last year."
Thanks, Peter. Those are the ones I was thinking of. Juist wanted to make sure they're still under consideration.
“Will, you’re a genius, but have you ever considered seat belts?”
"C'mon, Lana, I can't objectify you looking like that! On the other hand I do have x-ray vision, so...."
"Lana, hi, it's me!"
"Superman. It's Superman here."
"Yes, it has been a long time, hasn't it? Anyway..."
"Oh, you heard about Lois, did you? Yes, well, I..."
"Oh, I'm fine, thanks. And what have you been doing with yourself?"
"Brainiac? Really? No, I hadn't heard that. Um. I guess congratulations are in order?"
"No, I wasn't calling about anything important. Oops, there goes Jimmy's signal watch. Gotta go!"
"Damn. I wonder how Lori is getting on with Ronal..."
"COMEDY COVER CAPERS" #1 (of 4)*
*(DC published this humorous feature in 1974.)
BATMAN: "You're a hit, Robin! They're giving you a GREAT BIG HAND!"
The final count of covers for August.
Here's an updated version of the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes, including the subjects agreed for the next couple of months.
Note on the theme for October.
Vampires and Werewolves:
Quite a number of vampire and werewolf covers appeared during June, when the theme was "The Moon". We have had a couple of suggestions of how to prevent October's covers from getting repetitive.
At some point, we need to think about themes for December and beyond.
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