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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According to Microsoft, today is Winnie the Pooh day, being the birthday of his creator A.A. Milne. They may not be aliens, but they are certainly non-humanoid.
Couldn't help missing yesterday, so here's a double feature courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. You will have to ask someone more knowledgable than me about the similarities between the two covers, done years apart.
Adventures of The Big Boy #25, published January 1957.
Too bad that the people who provide the posters for the Bijou can't spell "Weirdos"!
All American Comics #13 (Ap'40): the book needed a star as Adventures into the Unknown, Ultra-Man, Scribbly, Mutt & Jeff and even Hop Harrigan weren't cutting it. Three months later, the answer will shine bright!
Our Army at War #13. Cover by the great Bernie Krigstein.
Immortal Thor #13-- for World Religions Day:
I suppose it's understandable that non-humanoid aliens would subject Eve to inhumane treatment - look at the size of that tiny cage! On the positive side, however, the bars look far enough apart that it shouldn't be too difficult for her to squeeze out!
Tomorrow being what it is, it seems suitable that this cover has three inhuman monsters on it.
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