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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Eric's Brave and Bold cover was one of the first that occurred to me for this month's theme. Here's a suspiciously similar cover from Hawk and Dove. They even have the same title, "In the Coils of Copperhead"!
Microsoft alerted me that July is National Bison Month, so here are a few bonus covers from me. Four Color #754, Thunderstrike #13 and The American Bison from History Comics.
As we all know, the American bison is not a buffalo. One of the stupidest things I ever heard was (I believe) on one of those shopping channels when an idiot referred to an African or Asian buffalo as a bison. A tie (or worse) for stupidest thing was definitely on a shopping channel. There was a set of lead soldiers portraying the Zulu Wars. Redcoats and Zulus. The idiot in this case called the Zulus “African-Americans!”
I've got that one beat. An article in my local-at-the-time paper referred to Tuvok, Tim Russ's character on Star Trek: Voyager as "the first African-American Vulcan."
I cannot count the times I've heard Black Panther referred to as an "African American superhero."
Lois Lane #129. Cover by Bob Oksner.
Just now getting here since Spectrum decided to upgrade their systems today, which left me without Internet or TV Cable until now. In any event, do snake based people count or is it just actual snakes and serpents for this month? Either way, this cover has both angles. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Sure snake based people count. Snakes is snakes!
Atom #19. The second in the "Search for Zatara" series.
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