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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Green Lantern #19. The villain sonar made an early impression on me. I use an electric toothbrush but shy away from a sonic one.
You don't often find a snake starring in their own comic...
Uncanny X-Men #223 Nov 1987.
It could have been a Marvel Two-in-One Annual, but either way, it was star-packed!
"I say, I don't want to be a bother and all that but this is one frightfully large snake! Can't wait for Sandman and Hourman to show up! Let them handle these blighters!"
I've got to agree with Indiana Jones concerning snakes, but this is the only cover I could find featuring him and them. It does help explain his lifelong hatred of snakes though. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
"Indiana was the dog's name"
May have told this first date story before: we both were into film so we decide to go to the new movie by Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Turns out she had a morbid fear of snakes.
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