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 always had problems with the concept posed in this comic. Supes decided that a great and suitable secret identity would be to adopt the role of president as his alter-ego. Why? Even I, at the tender age of 11 knew that the president (like the prime minister in Britain) generally had to account for all his time and was constantly in the eye of the press. Every day he would be expected to be visible while he opened things, closed things or otherwise appeared in public. Why, therefore was it a good idea to choose this role as a suitable secret identity?
Weird Comics #20. His Nazi kidnappers were considerate enough to let Mr Churchill smoke a cigar.
More Kid Eternity
Oddly, two of the covers I immediately thought of were "Izen-Hower" and its reworking as Nee-Xon."
Lex Luthor was elected President of the U.S. in the DCU in 2000.
(The "John McCain" cover JD posted yesterdAy looks remanrkably like this one.)
He's what Luthor looked like immediately post-Crisis.
More of "Nee-Xon".
I've been reading American comics for about fifty years now, and I'm amazed at how many characters there are that I've never heard of.
I'm sure that we'll get to Ronald Reagan soon enough but here's one from 1950! By DC, no less!
In 1950, when this was published, Reagan hadn't married Nancy yet and he was still a Democrat.
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