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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A later incarnation of Dark Shadows:
The four floating heads are former classmates of Jim Twilley (Grimjack), and all are under suspicion for the murder of another classmate, Jason Nines.
Read all about it in the "Legend of Grimjack" discussion.
A classic cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
An unusual variation on the theme: multiple floating heads, all belonging to the same person (Hugo Strange).
Would Jarvis retire or not? Either way the Avengers should have rethought Jarvis' position.
How long until they stopped bringing up his injuries?
Modeling With Millie #51, from November 1966. Drawn and inked by Stan Goldberg.
And, apropos of nothing, I was browsing through a wonderful charity bookshop yesterday afternoon when I came across "Curt Swan - A Life in Comics" by Eddy Zeno. A pristine copy and priced at just £7.99 (about 10 bucks). Obviously, I bought it (together with a copy of the History of Amazing Stories) and have been reading it avidly ever since. Zeno sure did his homework. There's an immense amount of detail here - a lot of which I didn't previously know. I have books on Kubert, Cardy, Mike Esposito and even Jerry Robinson but none of them go into as much detail as Zeno does in this book. It therefore makes for a fascinating read. I'd always assumed that Swan was a process-driven craftsman - turning out pages and pages of super-family material over 5 decades, but he was certainly much more than that. It was often left to him to interprete and subsequently depict scenes of immense complexity, and he did this with zeal and imagination. Anyway, I'll get to the point -Swan was born in February 1920, so perhaps we could dedicate a month to him in February 2025. Over to you guys. By the way I suggest that you pick up a copy of this book if you see it around - there's a review of it here http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2013/07/curt-swan-life-in-comics-re...
Zeno lives in my area and I've run into him at my LCS a couple of times. Nice guy.
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