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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Springfield and Riverdale
Wendy #12. I didn't notice at first how Casper is using his hands.
Another sinister snowman! Like clowns, they've always had their creepy side, but are they undergoing the kind of cultural makeover that has occured with clowns?
That's clearly some sort of snow creature looming menacingly in the background here.
That cover may have taken its inspiration from early cinema. The Snow Giant appears about 24 minutes in.
It's just been crazy the last couple of days so I will be posting double features until I catch up, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Sorry, I'm reduced to German comic covers from now till the 31st (not that there's anything wrong with German covers).
The cover describes YETRIGAR as the "Biggest Bigfoot" but he has "YETI" in his name!
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