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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The FOURTH issue of DC Comics Presents was the first issue I saw. This was the norm in my town, missing a lot of first issues because they weren't initially ordered until their third or fourth issues!
But it had the Metal Men so I was happy!
Action Comics #4. If you didn't already know that Superman was inside, you'd be surprised. He wouldn't make the cover again until #7. Number 8? Gone again! After #8 he either had the cover or was mentioned on the cover.
A brooding figure on a mountaintop in a raging thunderstorm.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the same storm.
As with Tomb of Dracula #20, this one seems to be more "(X-)Man vs. (Wo)man" but the unnoticible (on the cover) storm plays an important role in the story. Emma Frost (back then a villain) has switched bodies with Ororo, conjured up a storm, then lost control of it.
This is the big disaster that devastated Gotham City and made the U.S. Government abandon it for lost. What a dumb idea.
Time for a little fun today. I know who I'm rooting for in this natural versus unnatural battle. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Fatman #1-3 had been my introduction to the whimsy of the original Captain Marvel. Luckily in the 1970s we got some Captain Marvel reprints.
The 4th issue of Hawkman, with cover drawn by Murphy Anderson.
Sub-Mariner #4
Interesting to see how Superboy's serious and responsible attitude to the perils of Mother Nature changed as he grew up...
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