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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I really wish that the Inferior FIVE had a longer run!
Superman #190 October 1966, Cover by Curt Swan. Ignore the background people, this is about the five principal characters.
When I first saw the toy, it didn't make much sense to me. At least the comic book story provided a reasonable explaination for having it, and you can't deny the quality of the Garcia-Lopez cover art. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Not unlike the Spider-Mobile.
There seems to be a problem with the URL for that image. It points to "files1.comics.org//img..."
Change the highlighted double-slash to a single slash, and it works, as seen below.
And I come back later, and now the edited URL doesn't work. Sigh.
Let's just upload a copy of the image instead...
I usually upload an image stored on my computer, mostly saved from GCD. In this case I simply did a copy/paste, which is why it was handled differently.
(Won't do it again)
The Fatal Five
Supergirl Movie Special from 1985, with Dick Giordano's inks over García-López's pencils. The interior art was by Gray Morrow.
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