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 suspect this is a pulp rather than a comic cover, but it's wonderful and it's dated January 1946 which must have been a wonderful new year celebration for absolutely everyone in the free world following the end of WW2.
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I suspect that an awful lot of us own or have read Jules Feiffer's groundbreaking The Great Comic Book Heroes, and hopefully the original version, with all of the reprinted Golden Age superhero adventures. So we would recognize this page, a surviving example of the comics he drew as a kid:
I admit that that guy doesn't look much like a Snowman, but that's his sobriquet, so....
Oh how I loved Feiffer's book. What a thrill it was to see it on the bookstore shelf. I still have my well worn, often read 1965 copy.
An interesting contrast
Last post of the year from me. X-Men Vol 2 #165. I'm out tomorrow night. See you all in 2025!
Strangely, I don't think the snowman is the key part of this cover.
Tom, Jerry, Tuffy and snowmen:
Unfortunately missing yesterday couldn't be helped so here's a double feature, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
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