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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I don't think we've done a doppleganger themed month but I've got several already available, like this one courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. But why the duo always have to fight before facing the true menace...
Well, actually...
January 2021 - Doppelgängers.
I thing that was the first or second one I posted as a Janus-uary doppelgänger. But it also suits this month, since the doppels always seem, as you note, to fight each other.
Quicksilver became a menace in Avengers and Fantastic Four but it started in Vision and the Scarlet Witch when his wife, Crystal, had an affair with a New Jersey real estate agent. While she was pregnant. Really.
Four legionnaires become one giant composite menace.
The composite creature is Lightning Lad, Colossal Boy, Saturn Girl and Shrinking Violet.
I've always thought of Bounty as a 30th-century descendant of The Punisher.
Possible as Gerry Conway wrote this issue of SLSH. Later Bounty was revealed as a relative of Dawnstar's and a parasitic entity!
Regardless of all that, this was a really perplexing Legion story!
Oh, wow! I had wondered if he was related to the Bounty that appeared in the 5YL storyline, but completely forgot (if Iever realized) that they made that connection!
Another fabulous Curt swan cover. He captures Superboy's posture so incredibly well!
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