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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Now that it's after midnight on the US Eastern seabord, my cover for Thursday. While Mike Esposito is usually known for inking Ross Andru's pencils, he did get to work with Curt Swan a couple of times, as seen in this sample from the Grand Comics Database.
House of Secrets #14
The book of Curt Swan! And another comic cover to balance it out... Curt Swan cover on #14!
Here's a pair of images that could have been used in December 2019, when we were posting foreign reprint covers. The publisher of the Swedish version of this Superboy cover made a very odd change to the Curt Swan original.
Very odd. They've dropped the flying guy in the green suit, but left his shadow intact. This would surely destroy the whole point of the cover!
I see the shadow of the falling building piece, but not the shadow of the man below it.
It's there, bottom right, on the wall. Just about as much down and right as the cornice, as it should be.
What I noticed looking at this cover is the effect on Superboy's head. It's there because there's some extra black under the top of the window frame. Maybe shadow. Maybe so as not to deal with the shadow on the window, an effect that might be distracting. The upshot is that Swan (or, more likely, the inker) has to do some scratch-off around Superboy's head so the black of his hair doesn't merge with the black of the shadow. I don't really know why the layout couldn't have avoided this, which is why I think it was a problem that arose in the inking stage.
No, I mean, I do not see the shadow of the flying man (green suit), below the shadow of the falling cornice, not the shadow of the man (in blue) standing below the cornice, in the second one.
Oh, I don't give a darn.
"That's our shortstop!"
It is not all that unusual for covers to be "recycled", particularly in foreign publications (as is the case here). I strongly suspect that the stories inside don't match those of Superboy #39 and they just made a quick paste-up job to remove the other boy and make the cover more generic.
Curt not only drew all the Superman family and the Caped Crusader in the 50s, he also contributed to the the growing genre of war comics. In August 1952, Star Spangled Comics changed its name to Star Spangled War Stories as from issue 131, The previous issues had mainly consisted of ghost stories. Curt drew the cover for #131 and also for four of the following covers.
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