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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Little Audrey #5
One of JLGL's greaterst works!
Who could forget the controversy of Deadman #1 and its stunning last page!
This was the very first cover that came to my mind when thinking of 5 characters on a cover.
...plus the two TV technicians visible through the window behind Batman!
However, they are in Gotham Television studio 5, so that's all right, then!
Only readers in the New York area knew who William B. Williams was, or even that he was a real person.
Inked by Dick Giordano, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez drew the main figure with a mural of past milestone covers behind Superman. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
There are 7 on this cover, but it is Inferior Five #5:
(And one minced oath).
So, it's "Five characters on a cover", is it? OK, then, here's Tohru, Kanna Kamuy and Miss Kobayashi in the foreground, Kimun Kamuy looming behind them, and you may have to squint to see Azad skulking bwhind him.
Fantastic Four #5 was my first Marvel (not labelled as such) superhero book.
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