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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Crossover special. Floating head? I got a whole floating torso for you!
I've found a pair of transition covers, both featuring cages and (sort-of) floating heads, with remarkably similar expressions on the floating faces.
Unfortunately I have no transition covers, so let me just close out September with a couple from the Grand Comics Database.
I really liked the few 100 page giants I've managed to acquire over the years (left) and if anyone can truly say they were wrongfully imprisoned...
The Vision could be in a prison! Not caged, he's obviously chained! And there are floating heads!
This is from one of my favorite Avengers runs with a great Jack Kirby cover. The King draws a really good Vision. Too bad he never drew an Avengers story in the 70s! Plus, Wonder Man is one of the floating heads! And he just returned!
My final Jail cover, and actually it's a "get out of jail" cover. T-Man #9, January 1953, drawn by Reed Crandall. Great cover - see you all in October!
Amazing Spider-Man #10. My second Spidey comic off the spinner rack. The Enforcers weren't world-beaters, but neither was Spidey at first.
And there are ten floating heads
Good spot, I haven't even noticed that.
More "floating heads"--ten characters in all represented on this cover. This gives off the vibe of being one of those covers created before the story and then a story shoehorned in to match the cover.
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