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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Lana and Pa Kent (spanking) must both be pretty strong to break the scissors and hairbrush.
Superman #223 - Curt Swan cover. I often wondered what sort of tests these ladies carried out on Supes to establish he only had 50% of his powers. Did they test his invulnerability by firing a bullet at him and then noting how much pain he was in?
"When a beautiful girl discovers that she has the power to become invisible, there's bound to be plenty of adventure!".
Challengers of the Unknown #15
The first two issues of his own comic still gave us some explanation of his powers.
X-Men 74 was a reprint of X-Men 26, which had no mention of powers or anything else.
"Our power-dials"
Another missed day, so another double feature courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. (Powers reference in caption for Action 384.)
Multiplex is trying to steal Firestorm's power and tear him in two...literally!
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