A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Since I'm still up for the moment and it's after midnight on the East Coast, here's my cover for Wednesday, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.

[Richard Willis]

X-Men #10 introduced Kazar and the Savage Land to the Marvel universe. I don't think he had a sabertooth in the earlier pulp magazine stories.

[Dave Palmer]

[JD DeLuzio]

More floating skulls? Okay....

...Along with floating jack-o-lanterns and a head that might be floating somewhere off the page. Add the horse's head logo to that and we have ten floating heads.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Ten Green Lanterns

[Richard Willis]

Only two of them (deceased Abin Sur and evil Sinestro--doomed by his very name) are not from Earth.

[Dave Palmer]

[Eric L. Sofer]

Good ol' Professor X, always hanging around.

[MethodEng]

[Peter Wrexham]

Scarier even than a plain floating head:

1. a floating gorilla head...
2. belonging to Gorilla Grodd...
3. twice over!