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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This is not Animal Man.
Doggone you Dave Palmer! You stole my next choice! Gotta go with my next Marvel Family covers...
Not to say that anyone else has to interpret the theme in the same way that I do, but to my mind all three of those covers do feature the Marvel Family. Dave's choice shows them as silhouettes; Eric's first cover shows their secret identities and also their statues; and his second shows them in monkey form, and as portraits on the poster.
This interpretation makes it harder for me to find covers that I'm willing to use, but I've not had too much difficulty. I doubt I'll run out before the end of the month.
If it were "The Batson Family", I'd agree with you Peter. Ditto if the characters actually appear; but for my intents, I figure that if the character doesn't actually appear, then it's kosher.
Doesn't matter too much; it's not an issue with most of the rest of my covers. And I knew it would be a controversial interpretation with the Marvel Family. Sorry to go counter to the rules of the month's covers.
Have to admit I'm not crazy about this topic, since I like Silver Age and older comics, so I may not post a lot...or I may just post Blue Bolt covers
. For example, here's a Blue Bolt cover on which the eponymous hero doesn't appear.
Blue Bolt v. 6 #3 1945. Yes, I posted this for the Horses topic too.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a manga based on a series of light novels. (I've read 'em, they're pretty good.) The title character is a high school girl who, unbeknownst to herself, has god-level psychic powers. She shanghais her classmate Kyon to help her found the SOS Brigade, a student organization decidated to investigsting unusual phenomena. Three other students appear and join the group. Again unbeknownst to Haruhi, these three students are a time traveler, an ESPer and an alien, dispatched to keep Haruhi from inadvertently destroying the universe with her powers. (Haruhi may well have subsconsciously called them into existence.)
This cover frstures Mikuru Asahina, a time traveler fromm the future sebt back to observe Haruhi. Haruhi often makes her dress up in various costumes to attract attention to the Brigsde.
Black Cat makes a phone call. She broke into the call recipient's place. It could be Peter Parker. Even if it is, the cover doesn't even show his entire hand.
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