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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Did this guy murder Edgar Allen Poe?
Man, you should have seen him kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
JD mentioned Dynamic Comics earlier. I'll follow that up with Dynamite Comics. This is a variant cover.
Last weekend I posted two from Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew. This weekend I start with a more "traditional" floating heads cover from them, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
His heroic actions occurred when the enemy wasn’t there to engage him*, so the medal awarded to him was the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism. When I was a battery (company) clerk, one of the replacements who arrived was a recipient of the Soldier’s Medal, its Army equivalent, which he was awarded after saving a man trapped in a mine field. I’d be willing to bet he never talked about it. Heroes don’t think of themselves as heroes. I only knew because I had his records.
* The Japanese destroyer ran over his PT boat and kept going.
Fantastic Four #10. That's Doctor Doom in Reed's body. We get to see Stan and Jack in-story. Their faces were obscured along with Doom's.
FF #10 was the first Marvel comic I ever read. A kid in our neighborhood loaned me his copy when he found out I was starting to read comic books. At the time I had only read a few Superman related titles; I found the Fantastic Four story really weird. It would be a couple of years before I would give Marvel another try.
That's an interesting perspective, Doc. What was the next Marvel you tried, and what induced you to do so?
In my early years of comic reading and collecting I was a DC guy all the way although I would occasionally read Marvel comics loaned to me by friends or by my cousin. At one point I read a copy of Daredevil #16 guest starring Spider-Man. That was probably the one that really grabbed my attention. John Romita was the first Marvel artist I came across who drew like the DC guys. When he took over Spider-Man I was on board. I think Spider-Man #41 was the first Marvel I purchased with my own hard earned coin. Within months I was following nearly the entire line.
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