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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This "snake" hasn't appeared yet, but it's also their only comic book, according to the Grand Comics Database, from which the cover came.
Yesterday was the Western Ghost Rider, today the motorcycle riding Ghost Rider
These were reprinted with new covers. No offense to the artists involved but it's tough to top Ploog's original work.
Classics Illustrated #19
The villains in this issue have the power to get you through the night?
Monty Python, 2000AD...
Here's Judy with another British snake cover.
The British comic 'Whizzer and Chips' always featured a snake on the cover. This was Sid's snake, known as Slippy.
Despite what the cover says above the logo, he's back to try a different weapon against the snakes. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
"Oh no! DOCTOR MEDUSA has snakes for hair! Now we have stay at least a foot away from her!"
Doctor Medusa joined the Creature Commandos in Weird War Tales #110 (Ap'82), a plastic surgeon who gets exposed to a strange gas that makes her hair turn into snakes, like a modern Gorgan though she can't turn people to stone!
Amazingly in Weird War Tales #107 (Ja'82), a non Creature Commandos issue, a snake-haired Fury was featured!
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