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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Guess who was the DNAgents cheesecake character? Personally, I thought Amber was adorable - just cute as a button! But maybe more Angel cake...
Guess who was the DNAgents cheesecake character? Personally, I thought Amber was adorable - just cute as a button! But maybe more Angel cake...
I guess you really like this cover!
Personally, I think the turkey is outnumbered.
But perhaps not outwitted. ;)
You have to give Archie Comics credit for acknowledging, let alone publishing Kevin Keller. I seriously don't think they'd even be able to announce plans to do a series like this in America's current political climate. The subtle rainbow is the coloring of his first name in the cover on the left. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Archie Comics were never under the Comics Code (they just ran it). Same with Western (Dell, Gold Key). Dell published this comic in 1963 when companies under the Code couldn't. It's one of the few 60s comics I kept. My favorite story in it is "The Long Wait," about vengeful ghosts of sharks.
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