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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Okay, here's the letter "F" AND a green skinned person! And that publisher was a dog, too!
Happy April Fool's Day guys.
The "Fab FOUR"!
I don't have this. I've heard bad things about it. But I really want it!
"Bad things"? I'll tell you, I have often used Marvel Super Special #4 as a bad pairing of a good penciler (George Perez) and a good inker (Klaus Janson) producing results less than the sum of their parts. (I think It was written by David Anthony Kraft.) I haven't read it more than once or twice, and not for years... decades, but it's not that bad. It's not really that good, either; about what you'de expect. Don't get your hopes up.
April, and I plan to showcase some of the best issue no 4's from my collection. I'll start with this one, a wonderful dramatic cover by Neal Adams.
It's April first so Happy April Phule's Day. The fourth of six novels in the series, in keeping with this month's themes. (Image courtesy of Google.)
An April #1 for April 1st.
Flash #111 was my first Flash. I don't know how "natural" these clouds were, but it was the first issue I saw after "meeting" him in The Brave and the Bold #28.
Probably the most important #4 I ever used to own.
Two for April 2:
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