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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DC Pride celebrates the work of Rachel Pollack in 2024, also one of the celebrated works from 1993.
Been traveling for the past two weeks--a big chunk in the Yukon, so #18
Love Diary #18, from Oct 1961.
A little fun getting ready to pose for the cover. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Star Trek #18 (F'82) --the last issue (it's right there on the cover!) of its first Marvel series, achieving nowhere near the success of Marvel's Star Wars! It would be exactly two years for the start of the more popular DC version in 1984.
About as literal a transitional cover as possible:
(though it would also have worked if "frogs" or "spiders" had been next month's theme).
My last for June, Tomahawk #18 and Black Cat #18
My transitional cover between June and July. Boy, this was a TOUGHIE!
Are they referring to JD's transitional cover?
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