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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In Adventure Time, Jake the Dog is dating Lady Rainicorn. I'm no AT expert but she does look like a serpentine rainbow!
Afraid I don't have an appropriate transistional cover to take us from June to July's themes, so I'm just going to post what I do every Valentine's Day in my capacity as Editor-In-Chief of The Free Choice E-zine and for those curious, while my status shouldn't matter, I am straight but supportive of my fellow human beings.
I found a transition cover! This is The Phantom Stranger #18, featuring nothing less than a snake/serpent. Incidentally the cover was drawn by Curt Swan.
Are you sure that's Curt Swan's work? My first guess was Jim Aparo, but the GCD credits it to Neal Adams (both pencils and inks).
Transitioning with "Going on Eighteen" #19
Avengers #60, my snake contribution.
I had trouble finding a cover for this theme that also suited Canada Day. Captain Canuck has had several reinventions, but they never last nineteen issues. This pulp-influenced character never made it past #1. He's not especially celebratory, but he makes for an interesting start.
The Cobra
Introduced earlier by Jack Kirby, the Simister Mister Sacker was a more prominent and trecherous villain in Kamandi's later run!
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