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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I will start of with a personal favourite, I've used this one at least twice previously. I missed posting most of last month which was odd because it combined two of my childhood passions, trains and comics. Hope to do better with this topic.
Technically the comic book is still "Strange Adventures" and at this point it featured Adam Strange and Atomic Knights reprints. However, they pasted Adam onto the logo, so I think this should count.
What?! Not a single member of the mighty Justice League on this cover either of these covers?
To my mind, the absolute classic example of covers where the title characters are not featured.
Edit: and why has Ning 3.0 decided to add second image of the cover of JLA #37 to this post?!
I think the unwanted second image is because you are using an internet link. Correct me if I'm wrong. I've noticed that Ning tends to do that (try to open the link) whenever a link is posted.
Note: I'm excluding characters appearing in corner boxes, logo images (if any) and so on.
Fantastic Four #72
Action Comics without a Superman!
Happy September Everyone!
Until the last decade or so, the main reason the title character wouldn't appear somewhere on the cover was if the image warranted their absence but with the advent of Variant Covers, it's no longer unusual. One constant among the Variants is the totally Blank (sans title/issue/price/creator credits and UPC) Cover. However the one below, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database, is the only blank that ever made any sense to me.
This book is titled HawkMAN so technically...
This time Howard usurps Doreen's cover...
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