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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I'm willing to bet that Marvel didn't have to pay much for this. All they would have to do was to vaguely threaten to sue them for ripping off Sub-Mariner.* (I can't find any comments that might support this.)
*Also the movie Waterworld (1995), featuring “The Mariner,” which was adapted/sequeled by Valiant in a four issue series:
I'm losing track of what I've posted so far. I hope I'm not repeating a series. Keeping with the water theme, here is Primus: 7 issues from 1972.
Almost didn't make it today. Gold Key adapting Hanna-Barbera's version of The Harlem Globetrotters lasted 12 issues, with the first taking place at sea. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
It is now after midnight on the Eastern seaboard, so I might as well post my Thursday cover. While there were some dramatic and even tragic events during this 7 issue mini-series, the multiverse or even a universe was not at stake. In my humble opinion, it was just a deeply emotional adventure showcasing what comics can be. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Flash #16
Another underwater series. Four issues from 1962 to 1964.
Lee Houston posted the classic Crisis wraparaound cover the other day. Here's a solid Marvel wraparound, for the best of their two issues of Kiss (or, one of the 41 issues of Marvel Super Special that were published, but that wouldn't be a short series):
The band is on the front, and Doom (the chief adversary of the story) is on the back. So who or what are those cosmic comic gods in the centre? They don't figure in the story, and I've never found an explanation. Perhaps Marvel just wanted to add to the legacy of their first few albums, which threw out hints of a cryptic lore that remained undefined and unexplained.
Tailgunner Jo: A six-issue limited series running from September 1988 to January 1989.
One of my favourite limited series from the 1980s, the GCD describes it as follows:
Power of the Atom, 18 issues, was a follow up to Sword of the Atom eventually. As with most any Roger Stern written book, the stories were excellent, and the art wasn't too bad either.
Tomahawk #16
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