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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May 2020 - Heroes and villains cooperating.
Here's my one and only cover
A variant cover for that time Lex Luthor joined the Justice League:
Like I said, Avengers #16 should count:
From the look of this, we could have ended up with the Executioner, the Enchantress, the Melter and the Black Knight as members of the Avengers!
Here's an updated version of the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes. Following the various comments, I've rephrased this month's theme as "Heroes & villains cooperating". With luck, that will make it a little easier to find covers. So, villains helping heroes, heroes helping villains, villains who've turned good and heroes who've turned bad should all count. Does that sound reasonable?
We still need to pick a theme for July. Any thoughts? There's a list of suggestions for future months here, back on page 742.
One of the best Luthor stories of all time!
Wow, this looks tricky. Sadly, I don't know anything about the Bronze Age. My interest in comics diminished massively after September 1971.So I'm basically a silver-age guy. Still I'll give it a try. Here's Adventure #394 where Supergirl teams up with a load of convicts. And I found this after I combed through 150 covers.
That time Two-Face joined the JLA:
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