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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Whoops, thought I was keeping track. I changed it.
Doctor Fate encounters an assortment of Egyptian deities (and Wonder Woman) during DC's War of the Gods crossover event.
Spellbound #27 (1956)
In March 1972, when I was in the 2nd year at high school, The British Museum in London hosted a Tutankhamun exhibition, as it was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb. It was the most successful exhibition ever staged at the museum. It ran for 6 months and attracted more than 1.6 million visitors. Our school made a feature of bringing the exhibition to our attention and we had talks, lectures and projects based on King Tut. This "Tut' focus immediately got me interested in the whole subject, an interest that continues to this day. To my fellow Brits on here, anyone else remember this exhibition?
I actually attended that exhibit. It happened to coincide with the first visit of my mother and I to visit her brothers and my cousins, twenty years after we moved to the U.S..
I certainly remember the Tutankamun exhibition being all over the media, but I never actually went to see the exhibition. That may have been because all the hype made me feel that it had been over-exposed. Alternatively, it may have been then fact that 1972 was my last year of school before going to university,and I found myself just too busy!
Incidentally, Steve, we've already seen that "Murder of King Tut" cover this month. Posted by Philip Portelli on 7th November, page 2258.
Too much going on yesterday to get here so to make up for that, two covers from Marvel's British version of the Thundercats versus Mum-ra, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
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