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 quickly discovered that #12 is the first issue. The last issue is #1. It's "Countdown" seven years before DC did it.
GCD :: Covers :: Marvel: The Lost Generation
And the funny thing is, it's a good read in either direction!
Daffy with two snowmen (one regular, one abominable).
Not a comic but an illustrated poster of one of my favorite movies:
Ok, so this one isn't actually a snow person, but it's a snow sculpture and contains an important message for us all, so I feel justified in posting it.
Don't have anything as deep as the Archie cover, so I'm not even gonnna try. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Spider-Man #12. Peter had a virus that made him weak. No one who saw the unmasking believed it. Betty Brant, Peter first girlfriend, finally made a cover.
For the 12th, I'm going to post 1/2 of The Twelve:
Between #0 and #½, I think virtually all of the characters' early appearances saw print in the 21st century in periodical format.
If not, there's always the Masterworks editions.
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