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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Star Spangled Comics #72 shows an interestingly different look for Robin. Cover by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye.
As I'm sure Mort once said "If you think of a good idea for a cover, keep regurgitating it..."
WF #141 was memorable (IMO) because it introduces the Eyrie. The nest of the "bird heroes" Robin and Jimmy Olsek A.K.A. Flamebird, operating as a duo without the knowledge of their mentors.
It made very few appearances (less than a half dozen), but the very idea that the two of them could act together in secrecy from Batman and Superman was remarkable, and ultimately unsustainable.
Strange Adventures #14. For a change the girl is from Saturn instead of Venus.
Curt Swan and George Klein - what a pairing!
What amazes me is that despite his long association with the Man of Steel, Curt Swan didn't get to draw that many anniversary milestone covers. Although Swan contributed the Jimmy Olsen panel with inks by Murphy Anderson to issue 600, Action Comics 300 was the only full drawing of his tenure. Meanwhile, Superman 200 was his only anniversary cover on that title, with inks by George Klein. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
It was okay to torment Lois because she was a girl!
Hey, Jimmy was a boy, and he got tormented too!
Heck, Superman himself wasn't exempt!
(btw, at one point, this was the oldest issue of Superman I owned.)
Blackhawk with his head in the clouds, as depicted by Swanderson.
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