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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I've been pretty much ignoring the "Number 1" dual theme this month, and concentrating on states. I've been lucky enough to be able to post covers for every state except Vermont (didn't find one), North Dakota (Dave beat me to the punch with Cheyenne Kid #68) and New York (decided not to use covers featuring New York City, and failed to find any for the rest of the state). However, I'm going to go to the numeric theme for my bridge cover.
The January end of the bridge is JLA #21, "Crisis on Earth-One".
See if you can work out what the February end of the bridge will be. Unless, of course, someone beats me to it!
Peter,
Here are some New York state covers that don't feature New York City (I'm assuming that we are on the American side of the Falls).
It's possible that these are are all the same story.
and one more
We mentioned Neal Adams last week and his first cover for DC, which was decidly unsuper. It was a different story with Marvel. His first cover with Marvel was just six months after his first DC cover, but boy, what a difference! X-Men #56 (May 1969) showed that Neal's skills had come on leaps and bounds since Action #356. Neal also drew the next 7 X-Men covers, all of which were first class. See you all in Feb!
This is the first version of that cover (rejected because it was thought the figures would obscure the logo).
Wow! Even better than the final version! I wish Marvel had gone with that one!
Me too! I thought some of the X-Men looked a little awkward (especially Marvel Girl) in the final cover.
Indeed, a beautiful cover. Also, it reminds me of some Walt Simonson panels during Fall of the Mutants. Of course, it is a fairly easy stance to arrive at independently - it was used in Wolverine's plot during the Outbacks era, for instance.
An actual Leap Year cover from Will Eisner
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