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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The Challs? The Sea Devils? What about Mystery, Inc.:
Lee Houston Jr. - Here's the Super-Team Family cover you referred to.
Super Team Family is a daily mash up of characters in a fictional cover... it's a lot of fun. You can find it at https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/
There was a serpentine Green Lantern! Did he/she ever have a name? And couldn't they have made a body stocking for him/her?
Here's a third Doc Savage snake (well, feathered serpent) cover.
Big Shot #80, from 1947. The cover was drawn by the indomitable Boody Rogers, who had created the cover star, Sparky Watts.
Sometimes I have to wonder about the practicality of Red Sonja's outfit, but this pose shows why a lot of artists prefer it. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Doubtlessly, because it brings fond memories of Wendy Pini's cosplay.
Avengers #19 introduced the Swordsman and an origin for Hawkeye.
Scooby's third appearance this month features a three-headed hydrated hydra:
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