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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Superman #321, inked by Dick Giordano
Five characters on the cover of Teen Titans #5.
Also, not a cover, but a Garcia-Lopez picture of Captain America. Just because.
Uh-oh! He took off his cape for that third pose. I wonder where this was going.
Captain Marvel (not Shazam) left the cape on but it turned invisible.
To me, this cover has curious echoes of those wall-climbing scenes from the 1960's Batman TV show!
It's a dance-off between Superman and Wonder Woman! Inks by Dan Adkins over García-López's pencils.
The cover of the original 1978 publication is okay, but the 2013 collected edition looks so much better to my eyes.
This is one of the few JLGL covers I took exception to. I don't like Wonder Woman attacking with her fingernails, like some '40s character. She's Wonder Woman, and she's more apt to give Superman's face a right hook than a scratch.
May not be the best pose for Wonder Woman, but the story did take place on Earth 2 during World War 2.
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