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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"This was for little boys who didn't think 'girls' knew how to open parachutes."
"They can't open them when when the 'chute is defective."
Maybe it's for little boys who think 'girls' know how to do a safety check on their equipment.
A later Kirby FF cover.
Earths One and Two put their heads together:
Ten Aquamen
At least, I THINK it's a head... sometimes it's so hard to tell...
Five floating heads, ten Flashes.
B'Wana Beast never had a chance!
Following on from p2594 - more floating skulls...
Seriously running late today. This was a good series. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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