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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Continuing the Mad run:
The 1960 flipbook cover (page 2623) pretended to support both candidates. This pair from 2000 should have been a flipbook but wasn’t. I guess they opted to sell more copies.
Here's an unusual look into the Bushes. I wonder what happens to reality after this Crisis ends?
If you celebrate Christmas, there's one shopping month remaining.
11 members of the Squadron Supreme.
Leaders who rank a little higher than mere Presidents: Emperors of Earth!
I love the little background detail of the cop who lost his cap when he grew a fin on the top of his head as a result of being turned into a Martian!
Boy, that Mad magazine loved its presidential covers!
Sandman #31 has Dream and the Endless get involved with Joshua Abraham Norton who in 1859 declared himself "The EMPEROR of These United States. Based in San Francisco, Emperor Norton "ruled" for twenty years, dying in 1880 and given a "royal" funeral!
Super busy and almost didn't make it today. Two presidents and someone who thinks very highly of himself, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
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