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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"And that this government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."—Abraham Lincoln, ending of Gettysburg Address.
If Richard's, the Captain's and JD's comments at the end of the previous page are in regards to the upcoming US Presidential election in November, I already know who I'm voting for and against.
Wash Tubbs #28, 1943. The cover is redrawn from the first panel of Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily strip from December 31, 1938. The scene is prior to where the story in the first sequence begins.
Behind Wash Tubbs is the character who will eventually take over his strip, Captain Easy.
You always have to be careful with someone who is looney enough to do what he says.
Journey into Unknown Worlds #9
Not a conventional prison, but I couldn't resist...
A "Detention Area" is just another name for a cell or prison, right?
It stinks when the good guys are in prision, even temporarily. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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