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 think we can all guess why Minute-Man didn't have a girlfriend.
They didn't even include Minute-Man and Hourman in the JLA/JSA/Fawcett team-up of Justice League of America #135-137 (O-D'76) and they were using a lot of analogues! Like Batman & Robin/Mister Scarlet & Pinky and Hawkman & Hawkgirl/Bulletman & Bulletgirl!
Running out of Archie, but here's a Little Archie.
So, they've built a snowman in the meadow and they're pretending he's Parson Brown?
.....and Betty's going to melt him! The horror!
Life had other plans for me yesterday, so here's a double feature to make up for my absence, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Seems a little surprising that a snowman would have a taste for a hot stew...
Flash #12. It's 1940, and he's battling soldiers of a fictional invader, who are attacking a another fictional country.
Snowman in Paradise:
A UK cover.