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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Lois Lane #33. The last Lois cover drawn by Curt before Kurt Schaffenberger took over. Curt resumed drawing the interiors from LL #37.
Flash #14
It seems that a pretty common theme was givng Batman or someone else super powers to balance Superman.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Ray Burnley inking Curt Swan courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
An All-Romance issue of Adventure Comics filled with Supergirl stories from Action Comics by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson!
However there's no Brainiac 5 or even (*ugh*) Jerro the Mer-Boy!
A suitable Valentine cover from me to share today from the pencil of Curt...
This comic (JLA #84, November 1970) was one that I bought when it first appeared, in the middle of a long run of buying the Justice League's adventures. Despite this, I don't believe I ever noticed that Curt Swan was the cover artist (inked by Murphy Anderson) until now. This may be because I thought that the story inside, written by Robert Kanigher, was truly dreadful, and I didn't read it again for many years!
Since other people have been posting covers suitable for Valentine's Day, I'll just mention that this is the comic in which Batman and Black Canary, alone together on the JLA satellite, share a kiss, then recoil in embarrasment, and do their best to forget that it ever happened.
I don't believe I ever noticed that Curt Swan was the cover artist
IMO, Murphy Anderson and Neal Adams were fantastic, but the inks of both would always overwhelm the penciler.
It also contains the (very abbreviated) third Superman/Flash race!
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