A Cover a Day

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.

So, the end of the month, and for me a decision looms. Who to pick as my favourite artist from the 3 featured so prominently this month - Kane, Kirby or Kubert? A difficult one and one that I shall contemplate on during this evening. I like to think of a time when the 3 of them maybe collaborated on a cover or two. It was certainly possible - all 3 were roughly the same age, and all worked at MLJ/Archie for a time in the 50s.

It seems Kane left DC around the same time as Kirby arrived (1971), but Kubert worked freelance at both and may well have befriended the other two, if he hadn't already. All were either born or sons of Eastern European immigrants, all were of Jewish descent and I'm sure they would have had a lot in common. Maybe they made artistic suggestions to each other about Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, Spider Man, Thor and the FF. I sure hope so. Sadly Kane and Kirby both died relatively young, although Kubert survived until the ripe old age of 86 in 2012.

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Richard Willis September 30, 2017 at 1:12pm

Wally West (Kid Flash) gets his yellow uniform, magically generated by a lightning bolt using Barry's contemplated redesign. In Flash's series lightning bolts did what radiation did in Marvel Comics. Without looking it up, the redesign exposed Wally's red hair, kind of narrowing down his secret identity if someone wanted to know it. Later I think they employed a gas to make his hair look brown while in costume, so somebody must have pointed this out.
Steve W September 30, 2017 at 1:54pm

So, the end of the month, and for me a decision looms. Who to pick as my favourite artist from the 3 featured so prominently this month - Kane, Kirby or Kubert? A difficult one and one that I shall contemplate on during this evening. I like to think of a time when the 3 of them maybe collaborated on a cover or two. It was certainly possible - all 3 were roughly the same age, and all worked at MLJ/Archie for a time in the 50s.

It seems Kane left DC around the same time as Kirby arrived (1971), but Kubert worked freelance at both and may well have befriended the other two, if he hadn't already. All were either born or sons of Eastern European immigrants, all were of Jewish descent and I'm sure they would have had a lot in common. Maybe they made artistic suggestions to each other about Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, Spider Man, Thor and the FF. I sure hope so. Sadly Kane and Kirby both died relatively young, although Kubert survived until the ripe old age of 86 in 2012.
3 September 30, 2017 at 2:21pm

how about a Kirby kover for KO Komics-

(yeah, 'kover' was pushing it. But it seemed better to go with 4 Ks)
Steve W September 30, 2017 at 2:24pm

Ok, my mind is made up. I'm going for Joe for two reasons. One, he consistently and magnificently portrays the moving figure (as displayed below). Two, Kubert's legacy is huge, not just in the art he left us, but also in the work of his sons, Adam and Andy, and the many artists trained at the Kubert school.
Steve W September 30, 2017 at 2:28pm

And to prove it, here's a cover drawn by Joe's son, Andy. X-Men #280. Magnificent!
- Peter Wrexham > Steve W October 12, 2023 at 3:18pm
  
  October 2017 - Letter L.
Steve W October 1, 2017 at 6:01am

So -it's October (at least it is here in the UK) and I'd like to open with Adventure #312 - The Sacrifice of the Legionnaires to revive Lightning Lad. Can't make a better start than that!
JD DeLuzio October 1, 2017 at 8:52am

Canada's Human-Lizard, whose allies include Lady Accident.

By Jason Loo.

Although he's far from Legendary, Captain Canuck makes a guest-appearance in one issue.
Philip Portelli October 1, 2017 at 9:36am

Oh, I'll get to the Legion later but here's my salute to DC's longest reigning female character: Lois Lane whose relationship with Superman has made her life more bizarre, more dangerous and much more wacky than your typical reporter!
JD DeLuzio October 1, 2017 at 12:11pm

I guess we should get to all of the great Loves of Superman's Life, then:

Philip Portelli said:

Oh, I'll get to the Legion later but here's my salute to DC's longest reigning female character: Lois Lane whose relationship with Superman has made her life more bizarre, more dangerous and much more wacky than your typical reporter!

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