A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Because of World War 2?

[Richard Willis]

Eric's Dec 13 post of the Master Comics cover made me aware that Bulletman and company had stories in that title in between 1943 and 1946. Number 13 is still missing.

[Captain Comics]

No. 13 of what is missing? Master Comics? The Twelve? 

[Peter Wrexham]

I think Richard means Bulletman #13.  See this post on the previous page:

Richard Willis December 11, 2024 at 1:37am 

 

Bulletman #12 went on sale on Jan 13, 1943. The next issue was #14, which went on sale on Mar 29, 1946, two years later. There never was a #13!

[Jeff of Earth-J]

[Luis Olavo de Moura Dantas]

This series was a lot more fun than it had any right to be. 

[Captain Comics]

Agreed.

[JD DeLuzio]

Here I was, thinking I was clever, waiting until the 12th to post The Twelve.... That makes me so....

(not really)

[Eric L. Sofer]

Okay, this one has me confused. This is marked #12 of 12... but it's the first issue.

[Eric L. Sofer]

And this one is issue 12... but it's the first issue. Oh, that John Byrne!