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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The short-lived Gold Key adaptation of The Mighty Hercules....
...a kind of crypto-transitional cover, since his arch-enemy was Daedalus, who was not presented as a villain in Greek mythology.
A couple of transition covers from a ten issue series from 1972-1974.
The first Sentry series was a five issue series from Marvel. And the Sentry was actually the Void, a super villlain out to destroy, destroy, destroy... so here's my transition cover for May.
GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN was actually a sister title to Marvel Team-Up that lasted six issues from 1974-75. Here the partners were more esoteric!
#1 had Dracula, #2 Shang-Chi, #3 Doc Savage, #4 the Punisher and #5 Man-Thing.
#6 was a reprint of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #4 where the Wall-Crawler must deal with a berserk Human Torch or does he?
Sadly I can't find any suitable transition covers but I was impressed by these two covers bookending "Women Outlaws" (published by Fox) which ran from issue 1 to issue 7 in 1948/9.
Legends of Tomorrow ran for six issues from May to October 2016. It bore no relation to the "Legends of Tomorrow" TV show, instead featuring Firestorm, Metamorpho, the Metal Men and Sugar and Spike (as adults), each in their own individual stories, which continued over the series. I haven't read LoT, but I do have Sugar and Spike: Metahuman Investigations, which collects their stories from the series. It's written by Keith Giffen and illustrated by Bilquis Evely, and is enormous fun.
I have the Metal Men collection. It was written by Len Wein so the story was good but it wasn't really the Metal Men.
It's been a very long day for me but I've made it just in time to close out April. While a major Marvel mainstay now and at times a menace, the Hulk's very first series only lasted six issues. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Spider-Man #17. The second appearance of the Green Goblin, who had traded in his "broomstick" for the iconic batwing glider.
I was a bit surprised to find a Little Audrey cover that fit our theme
And one that obviously fits into JLA continuity
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