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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Pre-Code, one each from DC and Atlas: House of Mystery #14 and Journey into Unknown Worlds #14
Transitioning
A couple of transition covers...
14 people on the cover (15 counting Odin):
14 people on the cover (15 counting the robot's hand):
Here's this month's crossover cover! Curt Swan, super-speed, and #15!
A pair of bridge covers that make me wonder what the difference may be between a "super-sock" and a "super-punch". Also featuring "flying super-fast", "smashing", "super-jump", "super-swim", and several unreadable others on the Jimmy Olsen cover, with "super-speed" and "my super-powers" on the Superman cover. Pencils by Curt Swan on both, inks by Stan Kaye and Murphy Anderson respectively.
I had a great time going down memory lane with Curt Swan covers, but it's time to get ready for March's Super Powers Spotlight. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
My transition cover: When other people got Superman's powers!
Lois Lane #15 is my transition cover as it's by Curt Swan and is a #15. It's a real wedding of a Kryptonian and an Earth woman, just not who they appear to be.
A #1 for the first and 15 people (including the guy on the left who is mostly cut off) for the fifteenth month.
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