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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More Tunes Trains:
Some hobo covers; each with a train
and here is a hobo cover and I think we can see train tracks in the background
Do they mean Alewife, Mattapan or Braintree?
Yesterday, I posted Green Hornet/Lantern/Arrow with trains. Today, I've got the Blues.
Blue Bolt.
Blue Beetle, who, like Beavis, appears to be faster than a speeding locomotive. He's also probably more powerful than a building, and able to leap tall bullets at a single bound.
Lieutenant Blueberry:
I can see how a train robbery can be daring. Besides the usual risks of encountering law men and posses, the darn thing is in motion. Last thing you want to do is fall off of either your horse or the train and risk getting runned over by your target. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I just watched the 1978 movie The Great Train Robbery, starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland, based upon Michael Cricton's book. He also directed. It was a gold train in 1855 England, predating Jesse James, involving climbing on the outside of the moving train and going in the side door where the gold was.
The Great Train Robbery (1978) - IMDb
Chalrton's Atomic Mouse #9 (1954)
A change of pace from all of the exciting comics the rest of you have been posting:
And one more that I almost forgot...
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