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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Have to be a night owl for awhile again tonight so I might as well post my Saturday cover while I'm still up. As shown in previous examples, sometimes the hero just can't help being a potential menace due to outside influence(s), and this also makes a great transition image to our June theme too. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Locally, there is an LGBTQ youth group called the Rainbow Raiders.
Superman May-June 1943, my transition cover
I'll see your Superman #22 cover and raise you a Superman #16.
Looka the flap of Clark's coat lines up with the crease in his trousers. Looka how the hat makes him look jaunty. I almost wish men still dressed like this. But then I remember it takes more maintenance than sweatpants and a T-shirt, and that I am lazy.
You and me both, Captain.
Batwoman #17 to shift us into June:
Three final "Superman as Menace" covers, ending with a transition.
I keep seeing "BBB" in the news. That probably means Blackhawks behaving badly.
Here's my transition cover for May - June. Adventure Comics #333... the War Between Krypton and Earth.
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