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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Jeff of Earth-J said:
For three or four issues in a row, Starlin recapped the opening of the story. I’ve read this entire run of issues in a sitting before, and it is extremely repetitious.
Since today they think in terms of a TPB collection, Marvel is (and has been for some time, I think) recapping events on the first page in lieu of a splash page. I think they started doing this on the inside front cover but that is probably too valuable for ad space.
Here's the very first Eighty Page Giant #1 from August 1964. The first 15 Giants followed consecutive numbering starting with this one. From G16 onwards, the numbering followed the numbering of the particular comic that was featured in the giant.
I'm closing out "E" month with ... Captain Everything!
Hoy
For my final "E," how about a double yolk of bad guys. Egg Fu from Wonder Woman #158 (November 1965) and Egghead from Batman '66 # 16 (December 2014).
Batman Earth One Volume 2
April 2017 - Letter F.
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