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.

 

[Peter Wrexham]

Steve, Eric, Lee, anyone else - still time to vote for future themes here.

Best of the West's Floating Heads: 

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Evidently the X-Men got a lot of head covers too. Here's three of them.

I posted #42 way back on October 3 (p.2586), but you missed #22.

[Richard Willis]

I really enjoyed these street-level bad guys that Count Nefaria recruited.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

For Spider-Man #100, the "floating heads" show up better in the original art.

P.S.--Not the actual "100th Anniversary Issue," either.

[Richard Willis]

I agree that the original art was much better. 

[Jeff of Earth-J]

And they just keep coming! This one hasn't even been released yet.

[Steve W]

Ok, this isn't a floating head but at least it is disembodied...

[Philip Portelli]

"Only One Hero can see the Danger! Can HAWKMAN Save Us All?"

This does not inspire confidence! 

[Jeff of Earth-J]

[Richard Willis]

For Halloween, two pre-Code horrors: Journey into Unknown Worlds #10 and Strange Tales #10