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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Opps, now we know the source of Little Audrey's superpower
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that a lot of these super power covers are STILL going to be Curt Swan!
A new month. A new theme. A whole new parade of covers courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Of course I still try to have fun on the weekends when possible.
Hey, I know the the theme of the month is "mention of superpowers" but I'd just like to take one day out to point out that today is the birthday of Bill Gaines. He was born on 1st March, 1922. In 1947, he was in his senior year at NYU when his father was killed in a motorboat accident on Lake Placid. Instead of becoming a chemistry teacher, he took over the family business, EC Comics. Comics would never be the same again.
Here Superman lost his regular powers but can now do magic!
"My Black Magic" - it's not Superman's powers that are referenced on this cover!
Strange Tales #110. Johnny talking about his flame, trapped by half of the future Frightful Four.
The "Student" labels are apparently like out "Student Driver" signs and Britain's "L" for Learner. So you don't expect the Student Superboys to save you.
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