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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Paper Girls was an incredible ride. Along the way and on-theme: #25 featured a same-sex kiss between characters who, being young, were struggling a bit with understanding their sexual identities:
She's here again!
Talking of Alan Scott, this cover from the 2024 limited series makes for a nice two-of-a-kind with a cover from DC Bombshells.
When you have a team up with Batman, sometimes you have to bring your own villain. And would both of these bad guys count as minor villains for August? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Betty and Veronica #18. March 1989.
Secret Origins #18 from 1987 also features the Alan Scott Green Lantern. I recall at the time that I was surprised that Roy Thomas waited so long to do the origin of the Golden Age GL but they did Guy Gardner in #7 so I guess that they wanted to wait. Indeed, they didn't get to Hal Jordan until #36! This was the story where the lantern was brought to America by Terry Lee, Pat Ryan and Connie from the "Terry & the Pirates" comic strip.
Also, they had Jack Ryder being drugged when he first became the Creeper so every time he transforms, he's high again!
Love that Sienkiewicz cover!
X-Men #18
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