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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Technically, that's Freedom's Five, not the Invaders!
Thanks for the correction! I should have looked more closely at the GCD entry, which lists the characters appearing on the cover as:
(So only four members of Freedom Five are actually depicted)
The Orson Randall Iron First is a much later addition. Along with Union Jack, Phantom Eagle and Sir Steel, there was Sir Steel's young sidekick, the Silver Squire and France's Crimson Cavalier who was later revealed to be related to the Avengers' Swordsman!
The number 13 is located on a four-leaf clover, so I'm calling it suitable for Irish Coffee Day.
Even the Man of Steel can encounter a tripod or two.
Another Marvel version of the Martian Tripods!
Okay Phillip. I'll see your House and raise you a Strange Adventures when Captain Comet was the lead feature. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Astro City #13 introduced us to Loony Leo, a talking cartoon lion who was accidentally made flesh by a mad scientist.
My final pair of "Martian Tripod" covers, from February and April 2006.
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