A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Steranko x 5

[Peter Wrexham]

Plastic Man #12 (May 1976), with a cover that may be by José Luis García-López.  According to the GCD:

Amazing World of DC Comics #9 (1975), in promoting this issue, provided the following credit: “Cover by Jose Luis Carcia [sic] Lopez.” We previously attributed pencils to Ramona Fradon and inks to Bob Smith.

The bad guy's head is certainly drawn in Fradon's style.

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Since I unfortunately missed yesterday, another double header courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Two by Garcia-Lopez, inked by Kevin Nowlan.

[Richard Willis]

Thanks for posting these. I never heard of this miniseries before. There are five issues, all available on DC Universe Infinite, which I will be reading. (The heroes featured as newly dead in this miniseries all "got better.")

[Lee Houston, Junior]

You're welcome Richard. Each chapter had a different penciler, but the same inker to maintain consistency throughout the mini-series.

[Richard Willis]

Tales to Astonish #5

[Peter Wrexham]

José Luis García-López channelling Neal Adams (particularly in Batman's pose), with a touch of Joe Kubert (the bear behind Green Arrow).  I don't know Russ Heath's art well enough to recognise whether any trace of his style is also present.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

4 Defenders + 1 duck = 5

[Eric L. Sofer]

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Today's Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database and to whet Richard Willis' appetite for the mini-series a little more. I posted issue 5's cover back on page 2438 RW.