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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Jackpot comic from April 1952. Unlike some of the preceding reptiles, these snakes are positively tiny.
Missing yesterday couldn't be helped so it's double feature time. For a really big snake (with wings!), the original and the reprint cover. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
A serpent based hero: THE BLACK COBRA!
Jimmy Olsen #19. This is the third story in the issue. See the synopsis here that doesn't explain his flying.
It's been a while since Disney's ducks have appeared at this thread.
It's the Serpent Crown (one of 'em, anyhow.)
Never saw the movie but I know it became a punchline for so many things!
I hear you, JD! Let me offer Uncle $crooge and pseudo-snake.
I'm surprised she hasn't shown up yet because it seems like a prerequisite that every character with a sword has to fight at least one snake in their career. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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