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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House of Mystery #134 - May 1963. There's a subtle message here - don't try and open a cell door when the inmate is ten times your size (and green).
So many people's lives would be improved if they'd just heeded good advice like that, Steve.
Detective #313. The mobsters are really spending a lot of money here!
While they don't technically fit this month's theme, the Collector does have the Avengers imprisoned on these covers.
Let's see what we can do. #119 has nine characters on the cover. #174 has nine Avengers on the cover, although I have no idea who is in the capsule between Wanda and Hank. So actually, both our themes are meet.
Thanks, Dave!
He's in prison, but he looks as though he might get a unique look at the harvest moon eclipse tonight.
Talking of good advice, I'm guessing it's probably a bad thing to let one of the inmates get hold of a complete set of cell keys.
And, on a separate note, I never heard of a DC series called "Gang Busters" before. This one dates from November 1958, and is numbered 66, so I presume that the series title started post-Wertham. Brave move by DC!
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