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 can't imagine Stan Lee would allow this kind of cover when he was hands on editor. Silver Surfer got a couple but he was a Stan favourite he was trying to promote. By this time John Byrne was Marvel's superstar and got whatever he wanted I guess. Unlless of course I'm misremembering all this,.a distinct possibility these days
Eric L. Sofer September 3, 2023 at 11:38am
Okay, I'll bite. You've posted JLA #64 because it shows no JLAers, only members of the Justice Society (this was before either Red Tornado or Black Canary had relocated to Earth-1). But why JLA #89, which features eight members of the JLA?
These two characters aren't Angel and Faith.
Nor are these!
Tying in with today's "Silver Age Supergirl" post, here is Starslayer #27.
"Black Flame" is the back-up feature, which, for one issue, took over the enitre issue.
Where were YOU the night Batman died?
And no, this isn't Batman on the cover.
Peter Wrexham September 4, 2023 at 6:08am
Okay, I guess that your choice of Batman #294 answers my earlier question. Ignoring the role-call head shot down the side of the cover of JLA #89, Superman and Batman appear in the form of figures with blank faces.
They are characters referred to by the series title whose features are missing from their faces.
They are Title Characters who are Not Featured.
Groan.
I posted Fantastic Four #72 back on September 1; now here's Fantastic Four #74.
This was back in 1968 when it was unusual to not show the title or eponymous character(s) on the cover. And with FF 72 and 74, there are no FF simulacra or "stand-ins", as is the case for, say, old Spider-Man covers with only his signal (which displays his familiar masked face) or DC using lookalike Earth-Two heroes on Earth-One titles. But as MethodEng noted earlier today, it's obvious Stan was trying to promote the Silver Surfer. And guess what, a few months after the two Surfer-centric FF covers, Silver Surfer #1 hit the stands ;)
We recently lost Arleen Sorkin, who Paul Dini based Harley Quinn on. Towards the end of "The New 52", DC had a Harley Quinn event where, upon other things, Harley had a variant cover that month for every title she was in. However, except for their respective trade dresses (title, issue, creative credits, UPC, etc) the image was the same, as shown in these examples from the Grand Comics Database. Sorkin was also the first to give Harley voice, and Quinn wouldn't be where she is today without her.
(And I have no idea why there is a big gap between the upper and lower halves, because it isn't visible in the editing mode when I went back to correct that but wound up adding this sentence instead.)
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