A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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]

Here's a couple of not-quite transition covers.  Although they're Halloween-adjacent, I feel that they're not really valid for October's "Halloween Characters" theme, because:

a) A skull isn't usually a character.

b) The guide notes for the theme say

"Try to avoid vampires and werewolves (unless they're just costumes), as that was the theme for October 2020"

Sorry, these were the best I could do! 

[Dave Palmer]

A couple of monsters to transition into October

And another Haunted cover without Baron Weirwulf in the main scene

[Eric L. Sofer]

For my crossover cover.... who's a bigger monster than Bizarro?!?!? (With a little Frankenstein thrown in for good measure...)

[Philip Portelli]

I had forgotten that 

1) that reintroduced Lady Shiva in The Question in the late 80s and

2) they turned her into Elektra! 

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Another long day on my end but before I go to bed, my last cover for September that also transistions to October's Halloween theme, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. After all, the "real" Trigon was a demon and a Titans' villain while Halloween is the ultimate cosplay event, so...

[JD DeLuzio]

October 1. Trick 'r' treat!

[Philip Portelli]

Seven out of these 10 characters are wearing Halloween costumes! 

[The Baron]

A favorite old comic of mine, based  on the show's annual Halloween episode.

[Richard Willis]