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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More romance from me. Five issues on from my last posting. DC obviously thought they'd hit a winner with the 'jail' theme.
Every few years I surprise myself by remembering Steve Ditko was involved with the Hulk right from the start not just in Tales to Astonish.
I wonder if that guy is somehow related to Magneto?
Ha ha, nope just one of the many alien menaces in the early Marvel tales. Eventually easily defeated by a non metal weapon and left vowing never to return, a promise he kept as far as I know.
A couple of oldies, Star Spangled #91 and Superman #83
The Superman / Clark Kent robots improved over time.
Monster-Ace kept his blond hair.
My favorite Batman comic I never read.
The daughter of two of my parents' friends had a copy, and I flipped through it once when we were visiting. I couldn't yet read, but the ending blew me away!
Lee H. posted about the difficulty of finding humorous covers with this month's theme, but these boys come to mind:
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