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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The Old Witch thanks you, Commander!
This isn't a comic, but it is one of my favorite Wood covers:
You can read the original here.
As a public service, I'm going to start this month by providing covers to books which reprint Wood's artwork. You're welcome.
We'll start with The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Vol. 1.
Since I didn't start reading comic books until 1974, my first introduction to Wally Wood art was his very brief tenure on the revival of All Star Comics. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Oh, if he really tried...
August looks like being a very busy time for me. I'll drop by occasionally, but I'll probably be sitting most of the month out.
Despite having them in other reprint books about MAD, I was glad that I got the three pack with Wally Wood, Jack davis and Bill Elder!
Wally Wood (perhaps we should refer to him as Wallace Wood, since he actively disliked the shortened form of his name) was born in Menahga, Minnesota on June 17th, 1927. After more than a year lettering various titles for various publishers, he finally made his artistic cover debut with "Women Outlaws #4" cover dated Jan 1949. Although the style was possibly a little stilted, one could already sense his skill and verisimilitude in drawing, especially the female form. It was clear that a genius was in our midst.
(And I absolutely love that earlier post "He followed me home Mummy, can I keep him?" I'd love to have a poster of that!)
Steve, et al: I got the poster at the Eclipse table during a convention way back when. It was bigger than the comic but not traditional poster size. Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea where you might be able to obtain one now.
Running way late. Let's see what Little Audrey is up to. Some eighth issues.
Fantastic Four #8 introduced the Puppet Master and his step-daughter Alicia, who became a major character.