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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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #11
From across the border: I'm rather inclined to think that your vote this week matters.
This has them o9n the back cover... but that counts as a cover, right?
Here's another British leader, Prime Minister John Major (the guy in glasses, with Dave's arm round his shoulders). As a bonus, there's also Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, riding an ostrich.
Here's Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew lamenting the young people vote with David Cassidy being elected President!
Strange to see it's John Lennon doing the swearing in with the other Beatles close by along with Yoko Ono!
And the Jackson Five with the Osmond Brothers! (I saw both of their Saturday Morning cartoon shows!)
In less than two years after this was published, Elvis would be gone!
You didn't mention Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart or Donovan.
Apparently that's not Donovan talking to Elvis but Tom Jones!
A lot of Brits for a presidential inauguration!
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