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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Alas, no transition cover because I'm not sure I've got enough to get me through November as it is. In any event, here's another one that I'm surprised hasn't appeared before now, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Gone, gone the form of man. Behold the Demon Etrigan!
First Egyptian cover
Well, Halloween night was a bit of a bust. I didn't realize how many kids we used to get because of the haunted house on the street, which lost most of its props to a basement flood. The weather was unseasonably cold (we have snow on the ground this morning). Add to that the lingering rhinoviral presence, and.... Let's just say we have a lot of leftover candy. One fun note: our first trick-or-treater was a neighbourhood cat, who wandered up onto our porch around 5:00 pm. We gave him some cat treats.
our first trick-or-treater was a neighbourhood cat
What was it dressed as?
This is the cover of the oldest actual issue of Astonish I have in my personal collection.
Benjy and Thor in the Egyptian theopolis.
If I remember correctly, the story in the issue of Batman and the Outsiders that JD posted was titled "We are dying, Egypt, dying". This is a reference to a speech in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, where Mark Antony says "I am dying, Egypt, dying". Who says that comics can't be educational?
Here's a comic that gets the quotation right:
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