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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A little late for Christmas but no matter!
You would think that if the Disney guys were just going to pose with an elephant, it would have been Dumbo!
Let’s clean out my elephant files for Harvey
So, it's the last day of the month. Can anyone give me any guidance as to what we're posting as from tomorrow? Heroes and villains united? So, any cover that features heroes and villains co-operating together? Given that Wanda the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were once seen as villains, would a cover of them, with fellow Avengers (Captain America, Goliath, etc) count as "heroes and villains co-operating"? I could do with some guidance here.
I cannot speak for anyone else, but my situation is this:
Normally, I have more than a month's worth of covers at this point. At present, I have half a month, and I suspect half of those will be posted by someone else first. Granting that the last couple of months have been a little odd, we may not find quite so many hero-villain team-ups as we did, say, elephants.
Given that, I think pretty much anything that could qualify as "heroes and villains cooperating" should fly. This is a fun creative exercise, not a tax form.
What is anyone else's opinion?
Philip explained what he meant when he suggested the theme as follows:
That still leaves the question you raise, Steve, as to the definition of "hero" and "villain". As far as villains who become heroes are concerned, perhaps they should no longer count once they're proven to have reformed? The cover of Avengers #16, in which Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch (and also Hawkeye) join seems acceptable. At that point the three of them just turned up and essentially said "Can we join? We're good guys now, honest!", but who knew at the time whether they'd stay heroes?
I've had a fair bit of trouble with this, as a result of which I'm quite short of covers for May. I know very little about comics after the mid-nineties, and very little about Marvel in general, so I'm often unsure who is the villain on a cover! We'll have to do the best we can.
And, yeah, what JD said!
Also, what are we going to do in July? There's a list of suggestions here.
So far I have two covers for May. I was surprised how many elephant covers there were—and I did go a bit crazy the last few days. Must have something to do with being stuck in the house for a month. It will be fun to see what other people post and play off of them; in the past that’s been fun when someone posts something and we’re inspired to go off in a bit of a tangent (hmmm, Tangent Comics, that might be worth a look see).
We’ve always been willing to bend the “rules” a bit as we go along, and if we run out of covers on this theme, we can always shift gears to something completely different for a few weeks.
Thinking about it some, I've realized that the "hero working with villain" scenario is a mostly Bronze Age thing though there are some Silver Age examples. So any cover with the villain helping the hero and VICE VERSA should qualify.
If my suggestion is causing any distress, I apologize!
I'm impressed that you have half a month. I only have one cover, which I suspect will go in the first few days. This is the worst problem I've had since we started this thread.
JD DeLuzio said:
May 2020 - Heroes and villains cooperating.
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