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 "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread.  Click here to view the thread.

 

[Dave Palmer]

More Brenda

[Peter Wrexham]

Two covers featuring star diamonds...

[Lee Houston, Junior]

While there have been many "imaginary" and Elseworlds tales speculating the results if some detail(s) of Kal-El's fateful voyage to Earth were changed, this is the first one I ever read. Courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Six Inhumans.

[Steve W]

I love the phrase "By all the Hordes of Hela". I try and slip it into conversations whenever and wherever I can. 

[Richard Willis]

Action Comics #6. Superman is still a surprise under the cover.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Six Watchmen.

[Dave Palmer]

Silver Star #6

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Well, it is Father's Day here in the US, and it's the sixth issue too. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Peter Wrexham]

Anyone want to nominate themes to follow July?   If so, head over to the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics" thread.

Here's a favourite starry cover of mine, from Green Lantern #24 (October 1963).