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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Who knew he learned to fly by harnessing the power of expository dialogue?
His cape should be collapsed against his body since he's not really moving forward,
Instead of calling him "Pa" he calls him "Dad Kent?"
Perhaps Ma Kent used too much starch in the laundry that week.
Or was it Mom Kent who used the extra starch?
My local bald eagles wouldn't attack his balloons UNLESS he was too close to the nest.
One more double feature, just because of the theme.
Before the original Crisis On Infinite Earths and everything it's begat since, a crossover between Earths 1 and 2 was a "big event". These still escape my gaze, even via reprint. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Alan really should have been more careful - "beware my power" is right there in the Green Lantern oath!
BTW, Lee, the two covers you posted didn't escape my gaze! I bought both those comics back in the sixties, when they first appeared here in the UK.
Starfinger shows off his vast array of powers and gets compared to Goldfinger!
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