A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

[JD DeLuzio]

Have you seen Polymer Polly?

She's so good looking but she looks like a dolly

Yes you should see her in Dell clad in a polymer shell

Yes you should see Polymer Polly

Yeah yeah yeah

 

 

[Richard Willis]

Challengers of the Unknown #4. This Kirby “Wizard of Time” looks a lot like his later Avengers time-villain Immortus.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Don't take this "earthquake" at face value. For a more believable explanation of what really happens in this issue (and what doesn't), see Thor #356.

[Dave Palmer]

Another whirlpool

[Peter Wrexham]

Maybe I shouldn't have used so much bonemeal fertiliser in the greenhouse...

[Eric L. Sofer]

The X-Men vs Alpha Flight

[Lee Houston, Junior]

A classic quartet scenario, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.

[Richard Willis]

Hangman #4

[Dave Palmer]

 A strange collection:  quadpartitite characters

and one more:  made up of metal, wood, crystal, and newspaper

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Don't forget...