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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Lordie, I hated every minute of the Dead Aquababy story. Killing supporting characters for shock value is bad writing. Killing babies for shock value is REALLY low.
Tales to Astonish #14. "Krang" was another name Marvel liked and reused in superhero stories.
Teen Titans #14--a beautiful Nick Cardy cover!
Like Batman did in Justice League of America, Robin took the lead spot in Teen Titans, thanks to the TV show!
After debuting in Action Comics 252 (cover date May 1959 and posted yesterday on page 2727) Supergirl's existence was finally made public in Action Comics 285, February 1962. A little under a year to the characters but a tad over three to the readers. This Curt Swan cover milestone was inked by George Klein. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Superboy #144 (Jan 68) was Curt's last Superboy cover, apart from 80 page specials. Neal took over from thereon in.
"Stolen identity" is a phrase you hear more often today.
This cover comes from the collected edition of Wonder Woman #212-#222, in which Diana proves to herself that she is worthy to rejoin the Justice League. The main figure is from issue #212, illustrated by Curt Swan and Tex Blaisdell.
In 2012, I ordered this from my LCS and never got it, despite them reordering it! I'm still sad about it!
Curt Swan drew four issues of this run: #212 (Superman), #214 (Green Lantern), #219 (Elongated Man) and #221 (Hawkman).
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