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.

 

[Richard Willis]

I have eight good covers left, so I'll be posting two each day until the end of the month.

House of Mystery #10 and House of Secrets #10

[JD DeLuzio]

This 2022 variant features the old-school Archie regulars as famous slasher movie characters, an interesting contrast with Reggie's old-school AJGLU-3000 joke.

(Yeah, I'm calling those hand-held masks "floating heads." It was too seasonal a cover to pass on).

[Dave Palmer]

[Jeff of Earth-J]

I have eight good covers left, so I'll be posting two each day until the end of the month.

I have seven good ones left, and 41 "iffy" ones. I've already started posting multiples. Here's an "iffy" one:

Technically, these are "border portraits" rather than true "floating heads," but they're reacting to the action so I let it squeak by.

These, however, are true "floating heads":

 

[Eric L. Sofer]

I have several good covers left too. Well, "good" is disputable....

  

[Peter Wrexham]

Follow this link to cast your vote for future themes.

Don't make me chase you for your vote...

 

[Philip Portelli]

Giant Floating Head and Hand! 

Plus a possible future topic! 

[Steve W]

 Startling Comics #10 (Sept 1941).

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Here's another "iffy" one:

Technically these are vignettes, but they do surround a single big floating head.

This is a true "floating head" cover:

[Philip Portelli]

Coincidentally, Jeff, I found out that Groot's first appearance was reprinted for the SECOND time in Weird Wonder Tales #19 (D'76) but not on the cover that featured the "first" appearance of Doctor Druid!