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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Walruses
Okay, on closer examination maybe that last one is a seal.. Anyone have a walrus cover, which also includes water, to make three of a kind?
Alas, something like this one doesn't have water
I hadn't realized that they'd made a walrus version of the Zatoichi character.
Richie Rich: under water, three times over.
Afraid I don't have anything specific to celebrate reaching the 2500th page of this thread, but here's a couple of milestones featuring Aquaman, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Keep up the great work everybody!
Girls' Love Stories #71 (June 1960). Sadly I can't find the name of the cover artist, but he/she is extremely talented. Great cover.
Steve: The Grand Comics Database says your cover is Bernard Sachs inking maybe Mike Sekowsky pencils.
Ask any stunt rider! Water is going to be involved at some point! Not even the Human Fly can escape that fact!
The Human Fly was so big that Daredevil guest starred in #9 yet didn't make the cover! Ouch!
We were just at Niagara yesterday, with a friend who was visiting from the U.S. He enjoyed it, but smirked at how the boat tour narration (Canadian side) really emphasized the larger size of the Canadian falls (the ones pictured here) and that the ones on the American side, because of specifics of physical geography, are slowly deteriorating.
Bulletman #7
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