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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Now I want to see a a multiversal variation of Superman's origin where Jor-El and Lara wanted to keep young Kal away from the madness while Krypton learned better than to listen to antivaxxers. But instead they ellected a majority of antivaxxers to be Moliums of the Science Council.
Kal returned at the timeframe when his parents expected the immediate crisis to have been resolved and found a devastated planet. So now he is, indeed, the champion for Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow.
Gives the whole "Not a Dream, not a Hoax, not an Imaginary Tale" thing a whole new spin, don't you think?
Jor-El had trouble coming up with a large enough spaceship, but had no trouble creating a duplicate Krypton full of androids?
Clearly that is the reason why the Council would not listen to him: he has a known story of odd hobbies and poor decisions.
♫You say you want an evolution?♫ (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Our Army at War #17. Irv Novick cover with great perspective.
Another hero turn for a hero / villain / hero....
In this issue:
A "hero as menace" cover with Superman, where Superman isn't the menace!
Another mystery menace
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