A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

 

[Dave Palmer]

[JD DeLuzio]

Marvel's Doctor Who #17. The Doctor did become a menace, in his hypothetical future self as a the Valeyard, but the Valeyard, to my knowledge, never actually appeared in a comic. In the one comic appearance of the character that I can find listed [spoiler].....

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[Eric L. Sofer]

The Hulk is such a menace.. he even made it to DC in an alternate identity!

[Peter Wrexham]

Rocky becomes a menace:

The GCD entry for this issue of Challengers of the Unknown (#3, September 1958, written by Dave Wood, and illustrated by Jack Kirby) notes:

Rocky's being shot into space, crashing, and exhibiting super-strength, invisibility and fire powers has similarities to Kirby's later co-creations of Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm, and Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four #1.

Or, as I put it when using this cover in MST3K month (September 2020, page 1053):

"Hey Dave, have you seen the cover that Jack's come up with for this month Challengers?  Rocky takes an experimental flight into space, and comes back with the ability to burst into flames, and project jets of fire from his hands!  Isn't that just the stupidest idea you've ever heard?"

"Eh, maybe I'll just go with the flow, and also give him super-strength, and invisibility, and..."

"Maybe freeze rays too?"

"Well. I was going to go with stretching powers, but freeze rays it is!"

[JD DeLuzio]

Hmm.... And Rocky.... Rocky.... A strong guy who's rocky.....

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Jimmy Olsen turns against humanity!

Read all about it in today's installment of "DC Finest - Superman Family."

[Philip Portelli]

"Omigosh! Batman just killed Catwoman, I mean the Black Widow! No, Mrs. Peel? What? Talia? Okay, I guess!"

 

[Steve W]

Who knew that super-speed was a menace!

 

[Richard Willis]

But, I do have time to discuss it.

[JD DeLuzio]

How did they say all that stuff before he hit the force shield?

Update: Wow, one minute apart.