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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That's a dam smashing cover.
By 1981, the Ghost Rider was no longer the Champion that he was but a full-on demon, nearly killing the Angel and battling the Avengers.
The weird part is that they let Johnny Blaze go without trying to help him!
The cover asks the question for this month, and the Creeper is about to find the answer. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
That Supergirl's a menace - especially if you're a jilted ex-boyfriend.
Showcase #17. The first appearance of Adam Strange (nameless on the cover)
Anothet Ben goes wild story. Not exactly mind control as mind altering. This time by the Mad Thinker in disguise as a world renowned scientist. You would have expected a genius like Reed to have built in protections to check visitors to the Baxter Building for folks in disguise.
Why, indeed?
It's a very strange past to which they've travelled, with Puritans, witch-burnings, Mad Anthony Wayne, and Benjamin Franklin, all in one Colonial American town. The future heroes pass themselves off as actors arriving in advance of a travelling theatre company. Superman explains that he's going to play Hamlet-- "the S is for 'Shakespeare.'"
Yet another mystery menace
Four issues before the one JD posted, World's Finest #182 sported a cover with a very similar composition:
A lot of big headed DC characters lately. Wonder what Spider-Man or the Thing would look like with Leader-like skulls.
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