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 "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.

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Luke Blanchard February 27, 2017 at 2:13am

The art of that Dylan Dog cover is lovely.

Edit: Sclavi created the feature, but he's a writer. The GCD says the cover artist was Claudio Villa. (It says the story was by Claudio Chiaverotti and Piero Dall'Angol. And 94 pages! Apparently a lot of Italian comics are l-o-n-g and B&W.)
Steve W February 27, 2017 at 3:35am

Thanks for the info, Luke. Appreciated. I've read one of the Dylan Dog comics (there are English translations around) and it contained a very long and convoluted plot!

And @Richard Willis - great cover. Never realised before that Robin was only 5 feet 1 inch tall! Is it possible that all that exercise he'd done to make himself fit had stunted his growth?
Steve W February 27, 2017 at 4:40am

A couple of Doom Patrols from me to finish off the month. I'm away till Wednesday, so will be back with covers starting with 'E'.

DP #103, May 1966, DP #104, June 1966. Cover art Bob Brown.
Dave Palmer February 27, 2017 at 8:15am

A genre we just don't see any more. Drag n' Wheels #41
Richard Willis February 27, 2017 at 10:44am

Another Dennis the Menace cover
Dave Palmer February 28, 2017 at 9:29am

My last "D." Drag Cartoons #1 (1963). Maybe not a comic book in the strictest sense, but still a fun magazine, along with others of its type (e.g., CARtoons). I believe that along the way some strips by Alex Toth appeared.
Richard Willis February 28, 2017 at 9:47am

My last D cover, Little Dot.
Philip Portelli February 28, 2017 at 4:08pm

My last 'D': The Invaders #18 and the return of the Mighty Destroyer, Stan Lee's longest running Golden Age hero! Roy Thomas retconned the bejeezus out of the character and, I think, it was later revealed that there were THREE Destroyers around during WWII!
Richard Mantle February 28, 2017 at 4:51pm

There is a fascinating INVADERS thread somewhere on this forum that has ALL the details.!
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