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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Totem poles? Okay, here's another.
Makeup wasn't going to cut it with this one! Definitely CGI!
Strange Adventures #10. Those air-bandits from space are here again!
If it's monsters you want, I think Adam Strange holds the record. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Challengers of the Unknown #13. The centaur is definitely non-human.
That's a half-truth.
A pair of #13s for today, which is both World Braille Day and World Hypnotism Day:
Lee, if it's monsters that you want (especially extra-terrestial ones...)
Sensor (the snake-like being) is another non-humanoid member of the Legion. According to the GCD, the other two characters depicted are Doctor Deacon and Pernisius. This cover (dated July 1997) is from well after the time when I regularly bought anything that featured the Legion, so I'm only guessing that Pernisius is the figure on the right, the more non-humanoid of the two.
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