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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To the best of my knowledge - in the pre-digital age the company printing a comic book would be given b&w line art with an overlay guide indicating the colors to be added mechanically during the printing process. It looks like Adler used the pencil art to paint (wash) the colors directly onto the art which would then be reproduced with no mechanical manipulation by the printer.
Featuring the current and the next* (I hope) President of the United States of America.
*And, no, I'm not referring to Malcolm Dragon.
The rest of the world is hoping and/or praying.
Bettie Page rescues and befriends British Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) in the early 50s!
Results being one vote for each...
Here's Britain's first Queen Elizabeth, probably in the late 90s. By which I mean the 1590s.
Could Judge Dredd win today? I feel it is unlikely especially since his US citizenship must surely be in question...
(It's 11.15pm here in England. I have to sleep now but hope to wake to good news in the morning...)
Tales of Suspense #11
The next President of the United States.
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