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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Le suub would be an interesting way to tour le sewer, I suuppose.
Okay, the story actually features this sort of thing:
This serpentine story features, apparently, Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, and Mer-Boy:
Also, the "Magic Eye Album!" Is that one of those 3-D picture things that were popular back in the 90s?
I think these guys are close enough to qualify for snaky.
A different Supergirl with a different (feathered) serpent.
A bit like the cover above, here's Superman: Man of Steel #3. Great pic of a snake's head!
The second chapter of "Panther's Rage" featured the debut of Marvel's first VENOMM with his slithering sidekicks!
You can't see it all on this cover, but that is definitely one big snake! (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The dog days of summer have arrived, so here's a Scooby Doo cover, in which Shaggy and Scoob engage in what generations of viewers have assumed to be their favorite off-screen activity:
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #19. In addition to horror, Dell/Western was able to even feature the infamous "injury to the eye."
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