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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I know it's late in the month but I don't think anyone has yet posted a cover featuring the President of Neptune (allegedly...)
Due to a scheduling conflict, I will be offline for a couple of days, so I am posting my "Nov-Dec" transition cover early.
X-Men #11. "The Stranger" was an interesting character was popped up in a few different books, then AFAIK disappeared.
The Atom #11
The Atom appears to be demonstrating a new dance craze.
A pair of elevens celebrating American Thanksgiving with turkey and terrible jokes:
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! May your Black Friday be fruitful and your Cyber Monday be merry!
Happy Thanksgiving to all that are celebrating. Here in the UK it's business as usual. Not sure who these four ex-presidents are but I'm sure others will know.
Steve W:
Your quartet are Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. As the cover blurbs imply, TV Funhouse was a feature on Saturday Night Live for awhile in the 1990s. When this sketch came up in the rotation of acts, Robert Smigel would always end it with the foursome singing a song rotoscoped/reanimated to old Filmation Archies band footage.
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