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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This is low hanging fruit, of course, but how can I not include the Sub-Mariner's first invasion of New York City, smacking Fiorella LaGuaria and first battling the Original Human Torch!
Can I just take one day away from this month's current theme, to celebrate the birthday of Mr Norman Thelwell, who was born on 3rd May 1923. I'm not sure whether he was big on the western side of the pond but over here in Britain he was the most successful cartoonist in the second half of the 20th century. His most endearing creation was the theme of pony club girls, their ponies and their antics. He wrote and drew 34 books, which were published in 22 languages, and drew over 1500 cartoons for Punch Magazine. His cartoons were featured on the cover of Punch 26 times; more than any other artist. He died, aged 80, in 2004, having sold over 2 million books. His art was deceptively simple, straightforward and breathtaking. I absolutely loved his style.
Okay. I try to have a little fun with each month's theme on weekends and the title of the series says it all. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
House of Secrets #17
Again, color is a big clue
Maybe it's just me, but isn't a tiger Batman much more menacing than yesterday's zebra Batman?
In keeping up with the question that I posed yesterday: if a villain turns hero but then equivocates as various writers get ahold of her, does it qualify? Catwoman always had some moral ambiguity, but she makes her first hero turn in Batman #62:
I love how it's a criminal hangout, so she just gets to hang out in her Catwoman outfit, despite having just escaped from jail:
But then...
And finally:
"Okat, okay, we'll get a bigger chair and a smaller toilet!"
Superman #189. This is what happens when you take Covid-19 to Krypton.
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