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.

 

[Peter Wrexham]

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,

We originally credited Joe Shuster and Wayne Boring with pencils and Wayne Boring with inks for this cover. We then changed both art credits to Fred Ray. Then we changed them to Boring alone. Then we finally changed them back again to Ray per the art credits he verifies in Alter Ego #25 (June 2003).

 

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Er - how so?

JAN → FEB

[Steve W]

Good point, well made, Jeff!

[Peter Wrexham]

  Well, now I feel dumb.  That never occurred to me!  Nice one, Jeff.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

[Richard Willis]

Spider-Man #14 introduced the Green Goblin and gave us one of the interim appearances of the Hulk between his first and second series.

[Dave Palmer]

A trio of Little Audrey #14s

[Eric L. Sofer]

Maybe Curt Swan's first DC cover here?

And I take the challenge - Curt Swan covers without using Action or Superman comics. Gonna TRY to avoid Adventure Comics and DC Comics Presents but no promises.

[Lee Houston, Junior]

The Grand Comics Database has question marks next to Swan and inker Steve Brodie's names Eric, but even if the credits are accurate, I'm afraid this cover by the duo predates that one. Does anyone have an earlier cover?

[Peter Wrexham]

The Boy Commandos issues were cover-dated November-December 1946 and March-April 1947.  The earliest cover I've found is this one, for Star Spangled Comics #49, dated October 1945, credited to Curt Swan and Steve Brodie in the GCD.