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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The Technican (NOT the one from my previous computer crisis) ruled out user/human error and mechanical issues, but would never officially commit to what actually happened to my system. All I can tell you is that no matter what I attempted to do, I could never get out of the BIOS screen. I had to acquire a brand new copy of Windows 11, which had to be totally reloaded into my computer from scratch, and then it took me several days of updates and going through all my backups to get back to a point where I could resume my writing.
In any event, I'm back, so HAPPY VETERANS DAY! (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
And (having missed posting yesterday) a couple more covers, dated Aug-Oct 1964 and Dec 1964.
Leading Comics #11. The huge yellow hat made me think of Dick Tracy (except for the dapper hatband).
"Hey, what about me?"
Her first #11: Down, but not out.
Michael Golden did a four-issue run of covers for She-Hulk (#8-11), the best thing about volume one AFAIAC.
Back to "third party candidates" with Ken Wind.
Yesterday was the 4th president, James Madision. We can't have James Madison without Dolley Madison.
One good president deserves another. You'd never get away with this cover today!
You want alternate candidates? Here's my personal favorite. "We have met the enemy, and he is us." (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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