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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Time for a little fun as we near the end of June. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Sub-Mariner #6. Also my second transition cover into July.
Wikipedia says this about Timely’s Golden Age Angel:
Thomas Halloway had no superpowers but he was an excellent acrobat and hand-to-hand combatant, an accomplished disguise artist, occult scholar and pilot and a skilled detective. He also wore the Cape of Mercury, which granted him the ability to fly, and used knives and other weapons.
He was promoted on many covers back then because he was publisher Martin Goodman’s favorite character.
Mister Kitty's "Stupid Comics" blog has written up one adventure of this Angel here.
Six heroes.
DC Super-Stars #8 shows Adam Strange and Alanna underwater, so this is my transition cover to one of the "No. 7/In the Water" joint themes for July.
Note that we have now also decided on the dual themes for the two months following that:
A few weeks ago I had set this cover aside as a transition. The Seven Soldiers of Victory vs. the Sixth Sense in "Seven Steps to Conquest."
My transition cover for going into July, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Amazing Spider-Man #7
This month's theme immediately made me think of this.
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