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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Almost didn't make it today but, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database...
Okay, since it's after midnight Eastern time, I'm going ahead and posting my cover for January 14 early but, considering the history of the two characters featured, I'm honestly not sure if there is only one monster on this cover from the Grand Comics Database.
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #13.
Another comic called "thirteen."
Do Moby Dick and the Hercuoids count as non-human enough?
Gloop and Gleep, the formless fearless wonders, in particular.
How sentient whales might be remains a question, but the cartoon Moby Dick was, and he's most definitely not humanoid.
Did someone mention Moby Dick?
Normalman Funnies #8
Homage alert!
The Dominators will never give off that "E.T." vibe!
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