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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"This is what you get for not letting me wear long pants or borrow the Batmobile!"
At the other end of Lonely Street?
Showcase #9 was the first of two Showcases to try out a comic for Lois Lane. She would get her own title eight months later.
I think it's right that Clark wasn't Superboy in modern continuity (whatever that means these days). Does Pete make an appearance? I haven't followed the main Superman books since Grant Morrison.
I don't think we've had any Western covers for our "Jails, Prisons and Cages" theme yet.
P.S. So far, we've had votes from me, Jeff, Steve, Lee and Richard in the poll for themes to follow September. Anyone else want to take part? Here's the link.
There's plenty of western covers out there Peter, like this one from the Grand Comics Database.
In this classic story we learn that Batman is not only the World's Greatest Detective but also the World's Greatest Marble Shooter!
More Ogden Whitney from me. My Romantic Adventures #49.
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