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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Three days left in the month and I'm really running out of floating head covers. I'm determined not to post any JLA or Avengers covers as there are a plethora of these and it seems like an easy way out. Instead, ploughing through a copy of 'AlterEgo' #52 (a fanzine magazine from 2005) I find an interesting article about artist Jay Scott Pike who drew for both Marvel and DC in the 50s and 60s. He was famous for drawing beautiful women (he created Showcase's Dolphin) and drew this cover for a 1964 'Young Love' cover. The heroine was to be called "Scarlett" but it seems uncertain if she ever actually got published.
I'm determined not to post any JLA or Avengers covers as there are a plethora of these and it seems like an easy way out.
Oh, I'm not proud. Yesterday I posted Defenders #102; here's Avengers #102:
Re the "Scarlett" cover, I've not seen that before. How good the art is!
I would guess it was editor Larry Nadle's project and didn't happen as planned because he died, like "Yankee Doodle Dandy" intended for Showcase. In that case a cover was prepared but apparently no story done, so that may have been the case here, too.
Thinking that the cover may have been used in that time period for another book, I checked all the covers for the several "love" titles that DC and Charlton had going at the time, but found nothing.
Casper #10 and Hot Stuff #10
Tomorrow I'll have two scary covers for Halloween.
Seven floating Howler heads...
Another Halloween-themed #10 with a couple of sort-of floating heads, one a rabbit:
NOTE: This is not actually the "100th anniversary issue."
Evidently the X-Men got a lot of head covers too. Here's three of them.
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