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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This "flip book" issue had both covers on a single issue for the 1960 election.
This "flip book" issue had both covers on a single issue for the 1960 election.
I'll see your "double cover" and raise you a "triple cover."
A great cover, though he's kind of on the ropes right now in real life:
His father never made a cover of a Marvel comic, but he did turn up on the inside:
This is the first (no pun intended) cover to pop into my head: the newly-elected President of the Free State of Illinois, Reuben Flagg.
...or, as they say in Washington, DC: "Power corrupts. Absolute power is actually kind of neat."
Here's a bit of a surprise cover.
Where is a president on this cover? Why, he's right here...
This is the first cover that sprang to mind when this month's subject was announced...
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