A Cover a Day

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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- Peter Wrexham > Richard Willis August 31, 2023 at 5:49pm
  
  February 2019 - Real people.
JD DeLuzio February 1, 2019 at 6:08am

Well, let's get started....

JD DeLuzio said:

Well, I'm still in favour of comic characters with real people:

Richard Willis said:

Since tomorrow is the last day of the month, did we decide that February would be covers showing real people and fictional characters together?

I assume this doesn't include the many TV show covers showing only TV actors.
Dave Palmer February 1, 2019 at 6:52am

Antonino Rocca wrestling Superman
Jeff of Earth-J February 1, 2019 at 7:22am

The blank space behind the Invisible Girl's hand (to the left of Stan Lee) is where Jim Shooter ordered Jack Kirby to be removed.
Philip Portelli February 1, 2019 at 9:11am

The pinnacle!
Richard Willis February 1, 2019 at 1:53pm
Jeff of Earth-J February 1, 2019 at 1:58pm
Steve W February 1, 2019 at 2:29pm

Ok, so this is a splash page rather than a cover, but it's the first one that sprang to my mind when this month's cover genre was first mooted.
JD DeLuzio February 1, 2019 at 3:38pm

Supes did move in some rarefied circles:
Jeff of Earth-J February 1, 2019 at 4:03pm

For that matter, the initial post to this thread fits the new theme.

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