A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

[Richard Willis]

Casper #13 and Wendy #13

[JD DeLuzio]

Traci Thirteen:

[Dave Palmer]

More microbes, etc. sort of--I guess this is a giant brain being attacked by giant viruses

and here is a cover someone made covering two of our sub-themes for the past week or so

and before we leave the month another "Thirteen" cover

[Eric L. Sofer]

Sorry, I used a Curt Swan cover again... but there it was just sitting there in DC Finest - Supergirl, The Girl of Steel as a cover. Hope this doesn't get me in trouble.

 

[Philip Portelli]

The Fantastic Four must deal with the alien "Infant Terrible" who never returned as the "Toddler Terrible" or the "Child Terrible"!

[Peter Wrexham]

No, that's fine Eric.  This near to the end of the month, we can just call it a bridge/transition cover.  At least, that's my excuse for using this pair of Jimmy Olsen covers that feature a distinctly non-humanoid alien, as depicted by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye.

Sorry, I used a Curt Swan cover again... Hope this doesn't get me in trouble.

 

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Have just been super busy the last couple of days, so there's going to be two double headers from me to close out this month, both courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Starting with today's...