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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Boxing Day is definitely a thing here in Canada, and most stores follow Christmas with "Boxing Week Sales." Most Americans I know IRL (most of whom, grant, tend to be in border states) are at least aware of it.
John Scalzi posted a video of someone singing a piece by Bach today and wished people a Happy Bach Sing Day, so there's that.
Hope everyone had a great yesterday. Today's the start of Kwanzaa and Boxing Day for those celebrating. Here's today's cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Tales of Suspense #12 and Tales to Astonish #12. These names seem to imply that these monsters are cousins.
Good to know that Boxing Day isn't just a thing in the UK. Apparently the meaning derives from servants being given the day off on the day after Christmas Day in the big houses and taking boxes of food to their relatives.
Here's issue 1 of Tally-Ho comics. Publishing date December 1944, I think this was a one-off production. According to Comic Book Plus:
"This was Frank Frazetta's first published work according to Overstreet, 30th Ed. and Greg Theakston. Previously indexed as Giunta pencils and Frazetta inks, but this is not the story as generally acknowledged (see, for example, Comic Book Marketplace #108 (December 2003), page 46). Giunta apparently recognized talent in the fifteen year-old Frazetta and allowed him to contribute some figure work and some pencils."
Okay, I'm cheating today. This isn't a comic:
Considering the weather outside, another Frosty cover courtesy of the Grand Comics Database as we celebrate the snowman's 55th anniversary this year.
A French bonhomme de neige cover:
X-Men #12 introduced the Juggernaut, a combination of mutant and magic from Dr Strange's world, plus he was the step-brother of Prof X.
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