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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Hmm... that one belongs in my "Tales by Timothy Truman" discussion. Unfortunately, I don't have it.
The last few months have been kind of crazy for me. I haven't been able to keep up on things as much as I'd like to. I'm going to have to pop over to that thread and see what is going on.
I was going with the Apache Leader, Geronimo who lived to be 79 in military custody!
He died in 1909 but he was still villified in the 50s! Imagine such a comic today!
T-Man #21 January 1955. The return of Mussolini.
This thing seemed to happen to T-Man a lot.
Another cover for Apache Leader Geronimo.
Running seriously late tonight, so here's the leader of Wakanda by his co-creator Jack Kirby, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Star Spangled #11
Hulk #11. The original Defenders were one over-powered bunch.
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