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 "A Cover A Day: Nominations, Themes and Statistics" thread. Click here to view the thread, or here to go to its last reply.
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My last ones for October
So... I wanted to end October with a graveyard/haunted house and motorcycle cover as a crossover to next month, but the ones I found were posted earlier by others who share my excellent taste in comic covers. However, I was able to find this one. She's a vampire, so, clearly, she's coming from a cemetery, and it's Halloween, so she's obviously heading for a haunted house:
Happy Hallowe'en and a Spectacular Samhain!
Let’s see what we have for the last day of the month.
A truly gruesome cover from Joe Maneely
A few haunted houses
A graveyard or two
A graveyard and a haunted house
A haunted doghouse
And because it is Halloween, a couple of Halloween covers from Dave Stevens. The House of Mystery is obviously haunted so it counts
And this young lady must obviously live in a haunted house
A small selection of tombstones for dead super-teams.
The Lab Rats (can't say I'd ever heard of them before finding this cover!)
The Seven Soldiers of Victory (though despite seven of them looming like ghosts, only one was actually dead!)
Two members of the Challengers of the Unknown (what the heck are those things perched on the tree branch and memorial stones in the background, and why is everyone ignoring them?).
"The Lab Rats (can't say I'd ever heard of them before finding this cover!)"
It was a short-lived John Byrne series. Wholly unremarkable.
"Imagine if you would a website where the monthly topic is haunted houses, cemeteries and other place where things go bump in the night and yet no mention was made of one of the most influential television programs of all time. Answers for that can be found on the grounds of these homes. Their address? Right now their address is...the Twilight Zone!"
My final October cover. Ok, it's more of a pulp cover than a comic cover but I still love it.
As we're dragged unwillingly out of October...
...let's recall the themes for the next few months:
November 2019 - Motor bikes.
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