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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Flash #13
The Defenders #13:
Martian tripods on two more comics versions of Wells' War of the Worlds, both dated 2009:
We interrupt this scheduled bulletin/month to advise that today, 24th January, is the birthdate of the wonderful John Romita. He was born on this day in 1930. He lived till the grand old age of 93. Normal service resumes tomorrow.
Normal services may not resume if this guy has anything to say about it. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Lee, I'll see your House of Mystery and raise you a House of Secrets starring DC's forgotten Silver Age hero, Mark Merlin!
X-Men #13. The second consecutive appearance of the Juggernaut. From the picture, it should have been the last appearance of the Angel.
Wells' Martian tripods encounter two different organisations: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (February 2003), and All-New Invaders (January 2015).
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