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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Oh well... it's a blockbuster story, isn't it?
Fixed. :D
This month's theme happens to correspond with my personal reading (or vice versa).
Here, Curt Swan is inked by Eric Shanower...
...and here by Al Vey:
Another character not normally associated with Curt Swan...
Couldn't help missing yesterday so to make up for it, here are two Curt Swan covers inked by Murphy Anderson, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Journey into Mystery #14
I long enjoyed the efforts to make stories that accommodated both Superman and Batman and Robin. NOT an easy chore!
I'm guessing this is one of those covers where they (Mort W.) came up with a scene/dilemma before the story was written. This is just poorly designed, which I'm not taking as a reflection on Curt S.'s talent-- sometimes you have to do what the boss tells you to do.
Haven't seen too many Lois Lane's yet this month. Although Curt was great at drawing women, he wasn't always so good at drawing babies!
The Defenders #14 where they start changing from a Non-Team to an Real Team, the Sub-Mariner leaves to star in Super-Villain Team-Up (big mistake) and Nighthawk would begin his evolution from villain to hero and third-rate Batman ripoff to second-rate Hawkman ripoff!
Not a comic, but a book by Mark Waid: "The Silver Age of Superman: The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the 50s to the 70s". Of the 12 greatest comic covers chosen to appear on the cover of the book:
- one is by Al Plastino;
- one is by Win Mortimer;
- two are by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano;
- and, to the surprise of absolutely no-one here, eight are by Curt Swan (with various inkers, including Stan Kaye, George Klein, Al Plastino and Dick Giordano).
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