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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Thanks, I've never seen that. Might have to find a copy.👍
A great and mythic leader of Britain, King Arthur. (I was inspired to use this cover by Richard's recent post to the "Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All" thread).
Camelot 3000 was DC’s first effort without Code approval. I think they justified it by its being only sold at comic shops. I sought it out in collection form soon after rejoining comics after my decade in the wilderness. I don’t remember where I saw it, but some reader wondered why King Arthur thought the invaders were demons and not aliens from outer space. In his sixth century world, I don’t think anyone thought there were other planets (just lights in the sky). Even if they did know there were planets, they would expect the inhabitants to be human.
Tales to Astonish #11. "Nothing can stop Monstrom!"
A contest in wizardry is brewing beyond the earthly seats of power, and the fate of the world will be decided by The Battle of the Five Wizards! The discovery of a perfectly preserved mammoth in a Russian glacier causes a worldwide frenzy as Vladimir Putin auctions the meat. Badger, Ham, and Daisy head to a castle high in the Urals where Putin parades the reluctant scientists who found the mammoth, including the beautiful Vietnamese researcher Mavis, Badger's wife. Badger risks Putin's wrath by springing her from his control. Putin considers himself a greater wizard than Ham, and will stop at nothing to acquire Badger's services. Or failing that, kill him. Putin challenges Badger to a decisive contest in the ring! Who will become the Wizard of the West?
Darn!
Let's go with Garibaldi and President #7 Andrew Jackson, and ignore the central figure on this cover.
While the story and the leaders were fictitious, here's hoping reality never imitates art. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Ah, yes, the nation of "Africa".
Also the nation of "Arab Republic."
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