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'm over-thinking a Jimmy Olsen cover, aren't I?
You really are.
Also, in the time it took you to say, aloud, "Great Krypton! I must decide in one second which Jimmy is real, or my best friend will die!" you could have saved all four and then sorted it out on the ground.
A trap I constantly find myself falling into. The 70 year old engineer in me finds many things wrong with the physics in the covers I post, even allowing for super powers. Then I have to remember the 10 year old me was just enjoying an exciting image. I wish I could read with the enthusiasm of that 10 year old again.
Sorry if that's a bit depressing I'm just feeling very old this week.
Technically, as it's still within 24 hours of Valentine's Day, here's another happy couple.
All-Winners #2, which went on sale in August 1941. The Timely heroes were fighting the Nazis well before we were officially at war. Stan Lee, who was already the editor, has a two page text "meeting" with the heroes to discuss inducting The Whizzer and The Destroyer into the squad. There is supposed to be an illustration by Jack Kirby with the story. If anyone has one of the collections of this title it would be great to see the two pages posted.
Issue #2 of the leaping "Dragon Frog." Who hasn't read this timeless classic comic book?
Well, me and I suspect most of this board, but it's a fun-looking cover.
A #2 and leaping.
Here's a couple of heroes leaping into action...
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