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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House of Mystery #2 (February-March 1952), cover pencils by Curt Swan. The GCD lists the inker as "Ed Smalle ?".
The story titles listed under "also" are...interesting:
"Mark of X";
"Tree of Doom";
"Experiment of Dr Grimm".
Another almost didn't make it night but here's another Curt Swan milestone. The cover to the original Superboy #100, inked by John Forte, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
And now, since it is after midnight Eastern Standard Time, my cover for Sunday. Curt Swan produced the milestone image for Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #100, inked by Murphy Anderson. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow. Swanderson
War between the Legions!
I asked AI (Gemini) what the greatest Curt Swan cover was and it responded with this cover. Does that mean that of all the websites mentioning Curt Swan covers, more chose this cover than any other?
Following Richard's cover of "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" in Superman #423, here's the second part of that story, from Action #583.
The cover is by Ed Hannigan (layouts), Curt Swan (pencils) and Murphy Anderson (inks), but that's not all that makes it relevant to this month's theme. It is also, as far as I'm aware, the only comic cover that actually depicts Curt Swan - he's the blond guy at the front of the crowd, wearing a black jacket and green trousers. Also shown with him are are Murphy Anderson, Jenette Kahn and Julius Schwartz.
Not many days left, so I'm doubling down. Jimmy Olsen #14 and Star Spangled #14
Lightning Lad was taking a year off dead for tax purposes. This might be the first "returns from the dead" comic ever.
Before I got The Great Superman Book in 1978, this taught me everything about the multiple forms of Kryptonite!
(Surprised they didn't do Black K, Purple K and Brown K!)
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