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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The Flash vs non-humanoid aliens.
My first Flash ssue.
Little Lulu #13. At first I thought this was a cheap "fat joke," but I think the joke is on Lulu.
This promotional giveaway comic stars a non-humanoid corporate superhero. Who knew that today was National Bubble Bath Day?
Menacing cloud creatures aren't limited to just the Earth Peter. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The Justice Society Vs "The Globe-Being From Space!"
The JSA did battle aliens several times during the Go;lden Age, even if that was rare in their solo adventures!
Loved that World's Finest #105 Eric. Never seen that one before.
Here's another interesting cover. From Feb 1955, the cover art is attributed to one Wally Wood, and the wonderful Maria Severin.
Plenty of humanoid and non-humanoid aliens in this cover's lineup!
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