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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An art pairing that didn't happen often. Curt Swan inked by Neal Adams. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Superman #167 had a Curt Swan cover. Brainiac (for better or worse) was revealed to be an artificial being.
Swan didn't like drawing the Legion ("All those kids! All those costumes!") but NOBODY did it better than he did!
You're so right Eric. Here's another example...
The front and back covers of Superman #245 inked by Murphy Anderson.
It reprinted Richard's cover in a way!
The rare Swan 100 page cover! With Hawkman, the Atom, Kid Eternity, Air Wave and Super Chief who I never heard f!
A Curt Swan cover featuring a different Atom from the one on Philip's cover. Also the Legion, and cameos from Hawkman and (probably) Batman.
Also inked by Murphy Anderson! Probably that's why Hawkman was included!
Rokk: "It says here that this was the first 'mystery man' to use the codename 'The Atom'. Apparently, he had the proportionate strength and speed of a short guy."
"And questionable fashion style and possibly very kinky!"
Almost didn't make it today/tonight, but here's the only instance I can find (so far) of Curt Swan being inked by Carmine Infantino, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
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