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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In 2012 we are talking about Diamond. Chances are they distributed all they had. Bad PR not to tell this to the shops ordering it. If there was an overwhelming demand, maybe DC would have done a new print run. I know that at Marvel then, upper management wouldn't print more just to scare everybody into placing bigger orders.
The Atom #14
It's interesting to think that there was a time when using a minor Legion character could possibly boost sales on a different book.
Curt Swan drew a nice North America.
Until we had photos from space we never saw any clouds over Earth.
More North America from Curt Swan
While they're not the big extravaganzas of today, Curt Swan drew the cover of Action Comics 300, inked by George Klein. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
This was a great story.
One million years in the future, and the Daily Planet building is still standing with only minor structural damage. Those Metropolis builders and architects really built to last!
World's Finest Comics #197 (N'70) has Curt Swam revisit some of his Silver Age classics, inked by Murphy Anderson!
They even include Green Arrow by JACK KIRBY! This came out the same month as Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (O'70)!
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