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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The only thing that I can think of is that they did it to avoid the negative connotations that the name "Karen" has come to have. If it's true, it's the stupidest damned thing that I've ever heard.
Since they changed her identity from the Earth-2 Kara Zor-El to someone else, the name change fits.
Lois, demonstrating that a dictator is generally a menace.
....a menace with a talented tailor.
And, apropos of nothing at all, today is the birthday of Hergé, creator of Tintin, and the birthday of Morrissey. Below is a photo from my study, a few years ago.
Flash #17 and Challengers of the Unknown #17
Once again, a Silver Age character takes time in the face of danger to narrate the obvious. Separated from the rest of the cover, the Chals appears to be demonstrating the latest dance craze.
I have no idea what this is. It suits the month's numerical theme and, for all I know, the primary one as well.
My Google Translate defines this as "Comics for Adults."
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