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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♫Do you want to build a snowman?♫ (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Still Archie from me (I'm celebrating the fact that "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies was at No. 1 in the UK singles chart on this day in 1969).
I'll assume that this is some sort of snow creature.
Leading Comics #12. Now they're only showing five of the Seven Soldiers.
But notice who's missing... it's the sidekicks. Speedy, Stripesy, and Wing aren't presented.
It's St. Nicholas Day!
Oh, now see, I do have that one.
It's another dozen!
This doesn't exactly fit the theme, but at least there's snow. And, hey... there might be a snowman in there somewhere.
When everyone thought most superheroes had run their course post World War 2, Leading Comics and a bunch of other titles switched to different formats, mostly humor. Hence today's cover from the Grand Comics Database.
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