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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Where did my interest in Wood's art come from you may ask? (Well I'm giving myself airs and graces here, since you probably aren't asking any such thing - but this is a great introductory line). Well, a couple of years after discovering US comics, in 1970, I discovered sci-fi books,mainly because of the sci-fi element in those US comics. Specifically I discovered Asimov, Arthur C Clarke and Robert Heinlein (the so-called big three). My parents were delighted (they thought sci-fi book reading was a huge step above comics) so they bought me a number of oldish US sci-fi magazines to whet my appetite. These included Galaxy Magazine from the late 50s and early 60s, and, guess who the cover artist was!
According to GCD, Jungle Jim #5 from King Features reprinted stories from an earlier Dell comic, also numbered Jungle Jim #5 but with a painted cover. This Wood cover is better but hard to say if it matches any of the stories.
Here is a b&w collection of Wood's science fiction-themed EC stories (also written by by A Feldstein).
Some kids and a dog witness a saucer landing and the arrival of what looks like some very cool collectible toys.
Still behind the 8-ball it seems
Looks more like he's behind the 13-ball!
Opps, I meant I'm still behind the 8-ball. I have a few more covers left.
To the Doll Man, the 8-Ball is a deadly weapon!
Wood's other main issue of All Star Comics, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Little Lulu #8
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