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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A couple of covers featuring Sponge Man
It's transition time... from monsters to the master, Curt Swan!
The Li'l Capn was always so disappointed when he'd crack open a book with a Curt Swan cover and find, like, John Forte or Pete Costanza doing the interior. He didn't understand how comic books worked, and wanted "the good Superman artist" to draw everything.
Well all, I too have a transition cover! It's the first time ever I've managed to track down a cover that bridged two themes, but to be honest, with Curt's prodigious output, it wasn't too difficult. Like others, I'm really looking forward to cover-posting in February!
My final non-humanoid aliens cover features intelligent jellyfish from the 1989 Aquaman limited series, with art by Curt Swan and Al Vey, so making it a transition.
Another double feature gets me all caught up for January as I switch over from monsters to the great Curt Swan. The Grand Comics Database says both covers were inked by George Klein. Enjoy.
Curt Swan was not known fr his alien designs. If fact, they could look rather goofy though this guy is fairly impressive.
But can anyone tell who this "Electro" is and why is he among Superman's greatest foes?
TRANSITION COVER:
Er - how so? I don't see any non-humanoid aliens (January), and I'm pretty sure the artist is not Curt Swan (February). In fact, according to the GCD,
Er - how so?
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