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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PAM (Pete Morisi) handed the art from #2-#6.
Here is his first cover
John Byrne's Trio ran four issues.
Can Triple Helix be far behind?
Oh my boy, we aims to please! Requests always welcome!
John Byrne's Triple Helix, four issues.
Red Circle's THE COMET (1983) was supposed to be a six-issue miniseries but only lasted two!
This was when I first started ordering books from my LCS and this was one of my first picks!
Appropriately enough, Secret Six, though planned as an ongoing series, only lasted for six bi-monthly issues, from May 1968 to March 1969.
Actually, it was seven!
They reprinted the first two issue in Brave & Bold during the 70s and I tracked down most of the other issues later!
I got those covers from the GCD, and I was absolutely positive that it only listed six issues. But when I went back to double-check, there was issue #7 (May 1969). Have I slipped across from a different universe where this cover never appeared???
Was there another comic that started its story on the cover like issue #1?
When I was a kid, most British comics didn't have a separate cover as such. Instead, the front of the comic was either a single-page story, or the first page of a story that continued inside (or, as in the example below, on the back cover).
Lion #16, 7th June 1952, which dates from just under a year before I was born.
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