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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Here's a "Stars" cover with the star of one of the "new comic strips" that Lucille doesn't fancy.
Not just stars, but Neal Adams stars!
Our Army at War #164 (February 1966) introduces the Mighty 6:
You're not counting Pooch?
Luckily Frogman had the good sense to stay off the cover!
The first time I ever saw a double spread cover on a "regular" issue (a few of DC's titles at the time were double size) of a comic book. Granted, it was a reprint adventure inside, but Jim Starlin provided a great cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
At the time, I would have liked to have seen an annual Legion reprint book!
Lee, at the risk of sounding didactic, Superboy/LoSH 238 was a double issue; it reprinted Adventure's 359 and 360, both of which were full length stories. Adventure 360, in its original incarnation, was the first Legion story I ever read and it hooked me for life.
Philip, I would have liked an annual Legion reprint book, too!
Like the Justice League of America at that time, the Legion was 34 pages of story and art for 60 cents between issues 231-242. 238 eliminated all the ads to have the entire reprint in one issue.
And I would have enjoyed a Legion reprint title too, like Adventure Comics partially was during its digest phase at the end of its original run.
Four STAR Spectacular #1 (Ap'76) was in my Christmas stocking in 1975!
It had a wacky Silver Age Superboy story, a provocative Golden Age Wonder Woman one, a magnificently drawn Silver Age Hawkman tale and a redrawn Golden Age Flash yarn!
Unfortunately the page count went from 68 to 52 with #2 so team-up stories had to be used afterwards!
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