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.

 

 

[Steve W]

Cleopatra has been a continuing theme throughout the decades.  Shame no-one actually knew what she looked like.

 

[Richard Willis]

We do know what Cleopatra VII looked like. During her lifetime, many contemporary coins and busts with her face were created. She was the last pharaoh of Egypt of the (Greek) last dynasty before Egypt was absorbed into the Roman Empire.

[Dave Palmer]

[Richard Willis]

Two from Forbidden Worlds

[JD DeLuzio]

This issue came out a few months after the first issue of Mad. Coincidence?

 

[MethodEng]

More Thundercat mummies.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

I went through a brief Anne rice phase in the '90s. I read the first three or four vampire novels, but never The Mummy. I did buy this comic book series, but again, never read it.

[Peter Wrexham]

Here's an opportunity to re-use an old post of mine!

Peter Wrexham January 11, 2021 at 11:11am

Here's pair of covers matching a surprisingly specific sub-category of the "Doppelgänger" theme: time-travel stories featuring the double of an Egyptian Pharaoh.

[Eric L. Sofer]

Let's get right to the heart of the discussion.

[Irma Kruhl]

Mystic #22 (1953)