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 cover far more trouble than it was worth!
I liked the cover when the issue was first released, but wasn't the trouble over Jackson Guice copying a record album cover without permission?
Yep, he copied Amy Grant's likeness from her 1986 album. Her team sued Marvel because she was a Christian music singer and they didn't want her associated with the occult! They settled out-of-court in 1991!
More Floating-head Flash Foes.
Another Facebook find, from a friend's conversation about recent acquisitions.
Original cover posted by MethodEng on October 7.
And the original cover was all red, with the floating heads in yellow. I've never seen this version!
Len Wein (editor) and Iren Vartanoff (reprint editor) must have thought this looked better.
Here are a couple of other versions, which one of all of these works best?
Here's the original so that we don't have to flip back to October 7
I think Stan knew what he was doing
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