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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"Camera Eye" (he's never given a proper codename) explains his superpower but gets rejected while Mystery Lad (the future Element Lad) acts all coy and gets accepted!
A little Silver Age fun, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Some more Silver Age fun.Jimmy Olsen #77.
"Your size-control belt" - the source of the Atom's powers.
Also, it's time to start thinking about themes to follow the end of this month. Discussion starts here.
Superman #15. The cover was a tribute to the scene in the first Superman cartoon. I still don't understand how he can punch a ray.
A reference to Superboy's super strength.
"Of course, my dreams are subject to various interpretations and we all know that Superboy CAN'T be killed so YMMV!"
"My robot body" or "Robotman's super-strength", depending upon whether you're looking at the original publication (May 1965) or the reprint (April 1973).
Super Adventure Comic (an Australian reprint publisher) #113 (Nov 1959). Sadly I can't find the original that this came from.
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