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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Now that we've solved that mystery, we have to ask "After he got hit by lightning did Superman turn into Billy Bateson."
I had a coverless copy of this Superman Giant that I read to pieces!
I was fascinated by the Sons of Superman, Jor-El II (should be Jor-El III) who had all of Superman's powers and Kal-El II who had none! I didn't care that it was an imaginary story! And they had a shadow-faced mother!
Halk Kar interested me too. He was quite the character. They call him the Golden Age Mon-El (which never dawned on young me) but since this story was from 1953, he's more Atomic Age than Golden.
And poor Sally Selwyn! They gave Superman a blonde sweetheart on Earth after getting black (Lois), red (Lana) and brown (Lori)!
They should have married her off to one of the dozen or so Superman/Clark lookalikes that lived on Earth-One!
Philip, I loved that comic too, and still have my copy. Luckily, mine is not coverless.
Another "coming in under the wire" post for me. While there is no denying Curt Swan's great job on Action 345, it wasn't his first celebrity cover. I think that distinction goes to Lois Lane 9, released May 1959 and inked by Stan Kaye while Pat Boone had his own DC title. Yet why Swan never got to illustrate the actual story is beyond me. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Okay. It is now after midnight Eastern time so here is my Wednesday post. Another Curt Swan milestone as he drew the cover to the very first issue of Lois Lane, inked by Stan Kaye. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
World's Finest #14. Is Robin suggesting arresting the boys or that the team skinny dip?
Egads, I think I just began transitioning to March way too early. Still a fun cover. There certainly was a lot of interplay between the Legion and the other Superman titles. A lot of 20th Century characters ended up in the 30th Century.
This was the first comic book I purchased. Well, it was purchased for me. Also, maybe the first 80 page giant with new material in it - a red letter issue to be sure!
What the middle aged creators thought about the Beatles and their fans during the 60s!
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