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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Another educational comic:
MGM's Lassie #19
Inspired by Dave's collection of foreign-language Tex covers posted yesterday, here are some adventures of Agent Secret X-13:
And here's a couple that I feel particularly benefit from appearing side by side:
Never read it but this is what I found in the Grand Comics Database when I got curious for anything related to "Love Train" as in the O'Jays song. After all, if there can be a "Love Boat"...
Oddly, it's the only cover in the whole limited series that actually shows a train, let alone the railway.
I'm busy next month, so I probably won't be posting at this thread again until October. Here's one for the 31, switching track to September's theme:
Let's go inside a subway car
It's Wonder Woman's turn to catch a tra9n.
After all these railway covers this month, the chances of me posting something original seems kinda hopeless. However, here goes. See you all next month - off to play tennis!
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