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 think the masks were tattooed! These covers indicate that whatever flaws they had, they had positive attitudes.
That "tattoo" explanation might make sense of Yosemite Sam, too. He wore that bandit mask even when he was being a Roman soldier or a jail guard!
Or, the Beagle Boys being dogs, they could be natural markings.
Good point... Though the dogs in the Disney Duckiverse always seemed (even more so than other Disney anthropomorphs) like some kind of goofy human-canine hybrid. Strange goings-on in the Disney universe, I tell ya.
Green Arrow joins the Justice League to free them from a gem prison.
If the cat ate the canary, she'll never tell and I don't want to know. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Humourous prison covers? Well, I've found this one...
Homer and Bart being convicts is more believable than the rest of the family.
My Romantic Adventures #50 (Oct-Nov 1954). this cover was drawn by Ogden Whitney who was at least as prolific (if not quite so good) as Wally Wood. From Wikipedia:
Whitney is a master of psychological distress. He had these super-bland faces; nobody looks distinctive. But then he'll throw in these crazy close-ups, or very oddball compositions, where things are static in space. I find them really compelling, almost terrifying. If you read his romance comics ... they're the weirdest romance comics ever. ... His version of men and women courting is men and women terrorizing each other for eight or sixteen pages. Pure terror. Psychological warfare. Also the thing about Whitney I like so much is that it's like phone book art – it's so generic it's unique.
Maybe we could run a month dedicated to the art of Ogden Whitney.
I've only experienced Ogden Whitney in ACG's Code-approved weird/ghostly titles, for which I have a nostalgic affection.
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