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 don't think that's what they mean when they joke about baking a file inside a cake...
During the Golden Age, Wonder Woman was held captive both on Mars and (in this issue) Eros:
A death camp doesn't technically qualify as a prison, but close enough for our purposes...
Not the main story, but the backup.
I really enjoyed all of DC's reprint efforts of the 1960s and 70s. Wish I had more of them in my collection.
Considering a couple of the posts before mine, guess I'm not the only one trying to have fun with the monthly theme on weekends. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
To an animal, is a zoo a prison or a haven? Guess it depends on the time period!
Crime and Punishment #24
Little Lulu #9 and Little Dot #9. Neither girl wants to fall down.
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