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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Something a little different - a painted cover by JLGL.
I well remember this issue ... unfortunately because the story inside was the textbook definition of "mediocre." Instead of José Luis García-López, we got Curt Swan past his prime with muddy inks by Frank Springer and thoroughly indifferent coloring by Jerry Serpe.
The end of this storyline -- issue 314 -- was my first issue of Superman ever, and I think the first comic I ever bought off the stands. "Mediocre" was not my reaction at all -- there was more drama in that issue than my 7-year-old brain could take in! I love this story -- it's what led me to become a comic fan!
It was a superb story, at least for me who at the time had read very little Superman.
Although I never actually read #311; I began with #312 and went all the way to 314. Well crafted use of both Kal-El and Clark Kent's worlds and the difficult dilemmas that came with being Superman, where the two meet.
Well, Rob and Luis, if you enjoyed this issue, more power to you ... my feeling was that everybody involved had done better work elsewhere.
The most human looking Batman/Bruce Wayne I have ever seen, courtesy of Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and the Grand Comics Database.
He's so human that he's spilling his bottle of Venom pills on the floor.
Archie #162, March 1966, Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo.
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