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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What an Ego!
These floating heads are judging (er - jurying?) the Flash.
Is that Hercule Poirot on the right? It certainly looks like Hercule Poirot!
Is that Hercule Poirot on the right?
Actually (believe it or not), [SPOILER] that is Iris West Allen.
Wait, what? Iris Allen, disguised as a bald man with a waxed moustache, was one of the jurors in the trial of her husband for the murder of her killer??
There's only one possible reaction to that:
It's a Cary Bates story, isn't it?
She wasn't disguised as a man. She was possessing him!
...from the future.
Big help the guys were during this!
While the basis for TV's Lost In Space, the comic was a totally different series from the start. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The TV show's use of the Robinsons name led to legal negociations. Gold Key then added Lost in Space to the covers.
Jeff of Earth-J, where are you getting those wonderful pctures of ten heroes at a time? I LOVE them!
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