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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I'm going to have to pick up the pace if I'm going to get to all the "floating head" covers I have stockpiled. I shouldn't have taken 12 days off to post Nicola Scott's "Through the Ages" covers, but I really thought someone else would some of the ones I have left, such as this one...
Here are three from the Byrne era alone...
I'm posting two since neither is a genuine comic cover. These fanart covers include some floating Talking Heads by someone named "Mark" and a tribute to perennial Hocus Pocus by Cheyne Gallarde:
Kind if a variation on a theme here.
"But what's that?" Come on, Batman, you're supposed to be the world's greatest detective! I think you can figure it out!
Heads sent flying, rather than floating...
"See center spread for story and explanation of cover"
What really sent my head flying is the "explanation." There is a strip with six heads on it in the center spread.
"The Man With 100 Heads!"
I shudder to think how many kids took scissors to their comics.
"Well, at least we didn't get to attach to the new guys!"
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