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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Actually, not a bad looking cover
I liked Mar-Vell's original outfit, but then I don't think of green as a color for villains.
I always wondered why Iron Man was going to grab CM's head.
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #14
The Automatic Billion Bubble Machine from Robot Monster. Magnus #14.
In my top 30 covers that I posted some months ago, there was only one Curt Swan cover. It was this one. I love this cover, mainly because it was the first LSH story I ever read. I was hooked once I'd read this!
Curt Swan got to draw the debut cover to Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen with inks by Stan Kaye. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Here's a Curt Swan cover with an inker that we've not yet seen this month (and I'll lay odds that we won't see again). New Frontiers #1 (July 1989), inked by Mercy E Van Vlack, published by Evolution Comics.
Mercy is a big, BIG Legion fan!
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