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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Night Girl floated my boat.
Shadow Lass here.
My crush was Phantom Girl. And Supergirl, of course.
Mr. District Attorney #44 (March-April 1955), cover by Curt Swan with inks by Charles Paris. That's another inker whose name I don't remember seeing previously.
Curt Swan drew Superboy's 20th anniversary cover and had three different inkers. Mike Esposito inked the new figure while Sheldon Moldoff did the edited reprint cover on the left (Superboy 96) and Stan Kaye the right, from Adventure Comics 217. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Our Army at War #14. This guy is confusing a Molotov cocktail with a time bomb.
Tomahawk #14
Action #241. Love Curt's use of perspective here. Sure - it looks easy. but it's hell on earth to get right on paper!
That's what drew my attention to this cover. Adventure #232, January 1957, Curt Swan inked by Stan Kaye.
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