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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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach...
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Dr.Solar #4, next issue he dons his red costume.
Sea Devils #4
A couple Superman vs Mother Nature covers.
This cover by José Luis García-López (and Bob Oksner), prompts me to remind everyone of next month's dual themes. They are:
"Number 5" and "José Luis García-López (artist homage)".
Here are two more ACG covers showing people threatened by the forces of Mother Nature:
I hope we can agree that Solomon Grundy is also a force of nature. Kinda my double between April and May. And thanks for the reminder! And I got another double for tomorrow too.
Sorry all - been a busy month this month so haven't been here as much as I should have. I intend to be here more in May. Here's Witching Hour #4.
Something special as we approach the end of April. An alternate cover for Superman #4 of the current series drawn by the legendary Ramona Fradon. Inked by Sandra Hope and colored by Trish Mulvihill, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
My last April cover
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