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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An interesting cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Skills would be powers for someone who isn't "super".
I've just realised that the comic which introduced Spider-man was Amazing Fantasy #15, so the cover that's obviously being homaged by Lee's Doctor Who post is also eligible to appear this month.
I had bought several issues of Amazing Adult Fantasy back then and loved them. When I saw a superhero was taking over the title, I passed it up. Kirby’s cover didn’t do the character justice. If they’d used Ditko’s cover I might have bought it.
The splash page from Adventure #382. I know it's not a cover but it's great and it's right on the money.
Animal Man's first two appearances (well before Grant Morrison got his hands on the character) mention several of his super-powers.
The Thing gets his power stolen! Can Tigra the Were-Woman save him?
Jack Kirby did some great covers for Marvel in the mid-70s!
Irv Novick did this cover of Our Army at War #15
"Witchcraft powers".
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