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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He self-published the Cannon collection, yet it reads "Wally Wood!" Does this mean he didn't object to not being called Wallace?
Perhaps it was just marketing. Comic book readers knew "Wally Wood."
It's time for PLOP!
I try to have a little fun with the monthly themes on the weekend, so while the border and header illustrations are by Sergio Aragonés; here's another example of Wood going Plop! (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
In 1952, Wally Wood worked briefly on the Spirit, taking him to outer space!
Odd. How come The Spirit Archives had a much better cover image than the separate collection? Just look at that detail work on the lunar surface, about 17 years before Apollo 11 was launched. (As usual, image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
They used the entire splash page for the Archive covers, IIRC.
Last one from the 1940s from Wood for me: My Secret Life #23, cover date September 1949. Following this, Wood signed with EC and Avon to produce a memorable series of sci-fi covers.
Little Audrey, as is her habit showed up on the first of the month. I did not expect to find a Little Audrey/Wood connection. But here are a couple of covers from Harvey with some Wood art. They may be the only two.
Wood worked on Daredevil for Marvel:
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