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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Fantastic Four #14 happens to intersect with Commander Benson's latest posted Deck Log. What, don't you chain up your intended brides?
"Reed.... Ben.... Johnny.... Stop the Sub-Mariner before he.... moons me!"
The two-part story that introduced the original Fatal Five!
The DC Wiki Fandom page has an excellent synosis of this Legion story:
Adventure Comics Vol 1 376 | DC Database | Fandom
As far as I can tell, Batman #228 (F'71) was the last cover Curt Swan did for that title, inked by Murphy Anderson.
Remarkably, during this period of time, Neal adams was the primary Batman/Detective cover artist.
It's halfway through the month and I thought it important to point out the sheer prodigious output of our artist of the month. If we take September 1958 as an example (a favourite month of mine) Curt turned out no less than 13 covers, according to GCD, along with a fair number of interiors too. Only Wally Wood outpaced him for the sheer number of covers drawn. Here are just two from the thirteen that month.
The Li'l Capn wanted Curt Swan to draw everything that Jack Kirby, Carl Barks and Dan DeCarlo didn't. Those worthies drew plenty, but little boys are never satisfied.
BTW, why is fish in quotes in Cover No. 2?
I haven't shown any examples of Al Plastino inking Curt Swan yet, but he got to embelish one of the earliest, if not the very first historic milestone of Swan's career. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
A very striking cover from the 1989 Aquaman limited series.
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