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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Kings in Oz usually aren't nice unlike their Benevolent Ruler, Ozma!
I've managed to find a transition cover to take us from November to December. Cheryl Blossom #11 (April 1998).
If, like me, you haven't read Strange Adventures 79, here is a synopsis of the cover story.
Strange Adventures Vol 1 79 | DC Database | Fandom
Up late writing, so I'm taking a short break to post this. I heard someone say Iceman doesn't qualify for "Snow People" and while this is true of his later and current appearances, in his very first adventure with the X-men he was drawn by Jack Kirby like a walking snow man. By issue 10 he started looking more like the Silver Surfer before hardening (for lack of a better term) to his more famous crystaline form of today. Therefore, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database, the only Bobby Drake cover that qualifies for this month's theme in my humble opinion. He's even using snowballs as a weapon.
Here's one of the oldest snowman covers I could find:
Not exactly a snow man...
Superman fought conman J. Wilbur Wolfingham multiple times in the Golden Age, so much so that even their snowmen clashed!
This is going to be a tough month for non-humorous covers. This one doesn't really fit the theme (ice rather than snow), but it's the first one that popped into my head.
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