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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I have that book. I bought it on clearance at an outlet mall back in the '90s. I think there were others (Golden Age, plus Batman and wonder woman ones as well), but this is the only one I saw. Otherwise I would have bought them all.
Almost didn't make it today, but here's the only Curt Swan cover I've found (so far) inked by Sy Barry, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
I don't know who that guy is but he's not Pa Kent!
Look at GCD. Between 1949 and 1958, Pa Kent was on the covers of Superboy 3, 18, 19, 26, 32, 36, 41, 53, 55. 59 and 62. He didn’t get a standard look until 1958, when I started reading the title. Superboy also didn’t get his Silver Age look until 1958.
Since it's now after midnight Eastern Standard Time, here's my cover for Thursday. While there is plenty of interior art accredited to him in the 1970s, this is the only instance I can find (so far) of Vince Colletta inking a Curt Swan cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Black Cat #14 looks like a Halloween cover.
Here's two with the Bat-Signal!
Curt Swan drew all the covers of Supergirl's run in Adventure Comics until Mike Sekowsky took over the feature. The first few were inked by Neal Adams!
(Don't worry, Kara! They won't try to erase you until 1986!)
On page 2716, Philip posted the cover of Action #314 (July 1964) "The Day Superman Became the Flash", with the comment
Lois Lane #29 (November 1961) is an earlier example, though it only features JLA members who were already part of Mort Weisinger's empire.
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