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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Sorry I wasn't around yesterday evening. We went to see a wonderful Beatles tribute act - they performed 40 belting Beatles tracks in the beautiful vaulted chambers of Worcester Cathedral. It was breathtaking! Not sure what King John would have said.
So two covers from me tonight. The first is Strange Journey #2 (1957), with cover art from Ken Battefield.
Followed by Flash Gordon #16 from October 1969. The cover art, inking and lettering were all done by Pat Boyette. He also drew and lettered the Mystic Realm story (21 pages).
Strange Adventures #13. An unusually overdressed woman for pre-Code.
In the ConFusion of the convention, I forgot to post this one yesterday:
A different eldritch horror celebrates Chocolate Cake Day (assume that it's chocolate under the icing) with issue #13:
Of far greater importance: today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Was very busy yesterday, so here's a double header courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. While Joe Kubert did the reprint cover on the right, I find the original by Jack Alder "washing" Gil Kane more interesting.
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