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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I DO have a transition cover: Frontline Combat #14 from 1953!
I actually have a transition cover too, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Here's a new (not yet released) one:
I too have struggled to find a transition cover that linked Wally Wood to water that has not already been posted. I'm therefore posting the cover of Mad #49. Wally did not draw the cover, but illustrated a story inside called "The Mad Horror Primer". Sadly, that's the closest I can get. Looking forward to August.
Seven X-Men, Teen Titans, Avengers...
TRANSITION: At first blush this might appear to be a "seven" BUT... Susan Richards is almost totally "invisible" (obscured) by the UPC symbol (those are her legs sticking out beneath), so this is actually an "eight."
It's a few minutes till August so I'm going to post one more transition. A Wood cover that fits the sewer sub-theme
World of Wood #2 to kick off August
Packed away somewhere among all my stuff, I have a poster of that cover's main image. Always thought the caption should be "It followed me home. Can I keep him?"
I don't think Wally Wood could've drawn an ugly woman if he tried.
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