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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My apologies, I can remember what comics I read 60 years ago but what I saw last week is anybody's guess.
Police Comics #9
The left side of Action Comics #339 plus the right side of Superman #35 equals my submission for today.
We've had two posts of times that Superman was both shrunk and imprisoned. Here's another hero who suffered the same fate:
More shrinkage
Still more shrinkage? This cover is very confusing, but I think the figures in the foreground may have been shrunken, possibly by the guy in the red coat and hat.
Incidentally, if Tarzan on JD's cover is 18 inches tall, that's an alarmingly big rat! A Rodent Of Unusual Size™, perhaps?
Superman sure gets it tough when he loses his powers!
"Uh, Torch, you mind flaming off? Not doing us any favors here!"
The Silver Age definitely had an air of innocence all its own. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
GunHawks #2. December 1972. For some strange reason they seem surprised that they're being fired on.
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