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 bought this one off the spinner rack. Superman and Batman engaged in a sword fight! Plus a Kirby Green Arrow story - how could I resist?
17th February, and it's Curt's birthday today. Were he still alive he'd be 105. In honour of this, I'm posting the very cover that opened this thread back in 2016. I always used to love seeing this cover when opening this thread, but since the switch to version 2.0 of the website, I only see a tiny jpeg icon in the bottom r/h corner. Innovation doesn't always bring welcome change...
Steve, you could edit the top-of-page text, and replace the image that got lost in the migration to Ning 2.0. Just overwrite the old version with a newly-uploaded image like the one you've just posted here. I've been meaning to suggest that you do this for some time now, but never got around to it!
Thanks Peter, duly carried out. Lovely to see the pic again at the top of the thread. Thanks for the tip!
I rather like this image of Superman on the cover of a 1967 German comic. It's presumably a reprint from somewhere, but the GCD, which credits the artwork to Curt Swan and "?", doesn't know where.
Bulletman #14. After a three-year gap between #12 and #14 (with no #13) the title returned as a quarterly.
Eric, your cover reminded me of Curt's Superman #147, which, in turn, was a homage to Adventure #247. It’s interesting to note that the Superman issue was published just a little over three years after the Adventure issue, in an era when overt nods to past were rare in the comic book business. Audience turnover was fairly rapid in the 1950s and 60s, and it would normally not be expected that current readers would be familiar with material published several years earlier. The fact that Swan & Kaye drew this cover, presumably at the direction of editor Weisinger, appears to confirm awareness by DC that the Legion was already developing an avid, long-term readership. My thanks to Ben Herman for these comments.
Eric, your cover reminded me of Curt's Superman # 147, which, in turn, was a homage to Adventure #247 . . .
It was that slug announcing that Krypto battles Titano that got me to buy this issue.
Mystery solved! The German Superman cover I posted yesterday used the central image from this 1960 Superman Annual.
The same image was used in 1999 for the cover of Superman in the Sixties. The GCD lists Curt Swan and Stan Kaye as artists for both of these covers, so that presumably also applies to the German cover.
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