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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It's a Super-Team Family cover!
How about something historic today, courtesy of the Grand Comics Databse.
Sorry, been away on holiday for 4 days. In lovely Welsh Wales, which is always nice, even in the rain. Guys, if you ever visit the UK, I implore you to visit Hay-on-Wye. It is the used bookshop capital of the world with over 20 second-hand bookshops there - a bargain to be found on every street corner. Bill Clinton is a frequent visitor, as is Stephen Fry, Van Morrison and Bez from The Happy Mondays. It's rumoured that reggae artist Jimmy Cliff lives a few miles away.
Ok, travel plug over, here's a couple of covers from me. I apologise if these have appeared already. I've gone back over the last few days and can't see these.
Lev Gleason's Boy Comics #27 (1946). Cover by Charles Biro
Comic Cavalcade after it switched to The Fox and the Crow from super heroes.
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