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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Lois Lane #17
"Look - already I've gained X-ray vision!" This suggests that the beams coming from Lana's eyes are visible. But on the cover of World's Finest #187 that JD posted on 7th May (page 2808), Superman is able to light a fire with his heat vision and blame it on "demons", meaning that those beams are invisible. So which is it? Does a Kryptonian's heat/X-ray/microscopic/telescopic vision produce a visible beam or not?
On that note, here are a couple of covers from Action Comics where Superman's super-vision powers (X-ray in 1957, heat in 1984) become a menace.
The visibility is that you can see the lamp is melting, presumably before they separated heat vision from x-ray vision.
Another World's Finest Menaces cover:
This is an odd one!
The Secret Society of Super-Villains recruit the Creeper, believing his "Hunted By the Police" tagline while overlooking the "Hated By the Underworld" part. The Macabre Manhunter goes along with this to see how he can stop them but ends up committing crimes, fighting Captain Comet and KIDNAPPING Jean Loring in front of Ray (The Atom) Palmer who knows him then walks away at the end of the story with no consequences!
Even more Superman weirdness - I posted no covers yesterday so here's two from me today.
I looked and looked but couldn't find anything Mother's Day related to this month's theme. If it were June, I'd have Father's Day covered because sometimes the hero begets the menace that is possibly hiding in plain sight. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Justice League #17. The Tornado Tyrant first appeared in an Adam Strange story in Strange Tales.
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