A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

[Eric L. Sofer]

[Lee Houston, Junior]

The King of the Seven Seas, and sometimes Atlantis, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.

[Richard Willis]

According to GCD, this issue went on sale at the end of February, 1942. At that point they knew the U.S. was at war. Hitler violated the Germany/USSR “non-aggression pact” in June 1941, but few publishers were comfortable putting Stalin on a cover, let alone “Parent’s Magazine Press”. Chaing Kai Shek was in charge of China at the time, which had been dealing with the Japanese invasion since 1937. Chaing would eventually be pushed to Taiwan by Communist revolution. This issue has stories about leaders, including Chiang, other military people and the Red Cross. It can be read here:

Real Heroes #4

[Peter Wrexham]

Bart Simpson as "Leader of the Pack" - twice over.

[Philip Portelli]

Here's a character I knew about but never saw an actual story of!