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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In this issue it's not the titular head who's a menace but his red-headed girlfriend. I absolutely loved this particular comic, especially the cover. A friend owned it and I couldn't find a copy anywhere (this was 1967) so I bought his copy from him for double the cover price (2 shillings). Worth every penny!
Superman #17
Generally a menace, he gets to be heroic in 52 (despite what the cover implies).
All Star Squadron #48 - Sir Justin gone BAD? Something must have gone horribly wrong!
I don't know what's more terrifying: that this Captain America is indeed a menace or the that outfit Hawkeye wore (by choice) in the early 70s?
That Dream Girl, she's a menace!
G'Nort, the doggy Green Lantern becomes a giant doggy menace!
I missed yesterday so here's the makeup double feature, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Superman has been menacingly enlarged at least twice in his career, to date. Once by red kryptonite and once by Lex Luthor because he figured Superman wouldn't be able to control his powers. Of historic note: the King Kong issue was years before the movie remake had the Great Ape straddle the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
Batman #17.
To accompany this cover, here's a picture of our local bald eagle family. The adult parents have white heads. The recently hatched off-spring are expected to fly away very soon. (And the parents seem to be ready to mate again)
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