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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Is it just me not remembering or has no one brought up Dark Phoenix?
Perry White turns against Superman!
For the whole "scoop," see today's installment of "DC Finest - Superman Family."
I always thought of Jean Grey more as the victim and the Pheonix Force as the menace myself.
Meanwhile, a little fun for the weekend. Casper just wanted to be friendly but was usually perceived as a menacing ghost. And as for AWOL covers, I'm surprised Baby Huey hasn't made an appearance somehow yet this month. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Amazing Spider Man #56. Spidey teams up with Doc Ock - surely quite menacing. I apologise if this cover has already been posted.
This is part two of a two-part story. I bought this at Cloverleaf Pharmacy when it came out, and it took me forever to find, buy and read part one.
Jimmy Olsen #17. Not an imaginary story, yet nothing on the cover is true except the statement about Clark Kent.
To follow Dave's trio from the "Heads as Menaces" sub-theme, here's another set.
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Oops! Is this a record? Shortest time for a repost?
The Moon Monster (last one) isn't a repost.
Well, two thirds of my post duplicated Dave's, which I reckon is close enough to count it a re-post.
In fact, "The Moon Monster" has been posted before, though not in this thread. I used it in the "Three of a Kind" thread, together with "I Became the Sun Creature", "The Man With the Comet Head" and "The Man With the Head of Saturn". This made a three plus bonus where the link was "My head has been transformed into a celestial body". Surely, only in the Silver Age could there have been so many covers with such a bizarrely specific theme!
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