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 "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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The cool thing about Grimjack (one of the many cool things about Grimjack) is that the concept lends itself to any genre.
For example, #10-11 was a Western, #14 was set in outer space.
Two of Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan's super-villains, Star Sapphire and Evil Star, seen on these covers in rather similar poses.
I'm back. Did you miss me? Did you notice I was gone? :) :) :)
There was a Golden Age Evil Star in All Star Comics #44 when the JSA went to see the stars in Hollywood!
I saw this Evil Star before I even heard of Green Lantern's Evil Star because it was reprinted in Justice League of America #115 in 1975.
The All Star Comics logo lived up to its name a lot more in the early issues than in later years. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Daredevil #6. Wally Wood's second Daredevil issue and the last Silver Age cover with his yellow costume. One of my favorites, since it also features the under-appreciated Eel and Ox.
Six mutants (five new, one old).
First appearance of the new Starman.
Space, the final frontier. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
There was also a Golden Age Star Sapphire, who fought Jay (Flash) Garrick twice without getting a cover appearance. That had to wait until 1963, when her first story was reprinted in Flash Annual #1.
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