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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While Richard Willis already posted the Swanderson image from the trade collection of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow on page 2735, as you can see from the original Superman 423 cover, the trade cover was edited for publication. While George Perez and Kurt Schaffenberger inking Swan was quite interesting, it's a shame Murphy Anderson only did the covers for the two part finale. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Amongst many other 'firsts', Curt was the very first artist to depict Bizarro Superman on a cover. This was Action #254 dated July 1959.
It's not on the cover, but Curt Swan makes another comic appearance in Superman Annual #9 (1983). This includes the story "I Flew with Superman" in which Swan falls asleep at the drawing board on Earth-Prime, and wakes up in Metropolis on Earth-1:
Most unusually, Swan seems to have inked his own pencils for this story, which can be read in full here.
A clever story.
Avengers #14. The Avenger who might die is The Wasp, who needs an operation. She gets one.
Daredevil #14. The villain, the Plunderer, started out dressed like an old-time pirate and graduated to this outfit. Part 3 of 3.
As an added bonus the Avengers are battling 14 henchmen if you count the gun in the lower lefthand corner as representing the 14th badguy. Jack Kirby was a master of these types of crowd scenes.
Lana still finds the time to have her hair done.
It's Supergirl vs Satan Girl, neither of whom made the cover, sadly. I LOVED Curt Swan's Supergirl... had a tremendous crush on her.
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