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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Journey into Unknown Worlds #7
Not content with creating the Japanese-American Tsunami, Roy Thomas revived the very obscure Neptune Perkins (or Tarzan of the Deep) as well!
Two Adventurers - one of them being Wolverine - find themselves in trouble and "In the Water".
Hangman #7
This is not:
You should have held on to that Undersea Agent cover for a few more days! According to the GCD, it's pencilled by Wally Wood, and the inks may also be his work.
Curiously, the interior art is by Gil Kane, who also did the covers for the two previous issues, and I must say that the monster at least looks a little like Kane's art to me.
Would you believe that "The Allies" have been around since WWII?
(Nah, me neither.)
It's the weekend, so time to have a little fun with this month's theme, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
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