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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It's National Cowboy Day, buckaroos!
(fourth Saturday of July)
Poor Kong! Did he have to battle prehistoric reptiles every day of his life?
Actually, he's saving the plesiosaur from the nearby volcanic activity.
Yeah, Skull Island doesn't bear close examination.
This doesn't exactly look like a worm to me.
Totally missing yesterday couldn't be helped so it's double feature time, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Superman #19. A less violent version of the Action Comics #1 cover.
Slightly less violent, maybe. Look at Superman's expression! I'd say that the giddy family has inflicted a saccharin overload to his Kryptonian kidneys, and that he's thinkling of launching that wreck into a low orbit. ;)
This is #19 of 1994, Warren's take on Heavy Metal. Originally launched as 1984, it received a name change in 1980, and went down with the ship three years later. I saw it once- not this issue. The first story began with the rape of an eleven-year-old. It was the first and last issue that I read.
Another scene from Conan: Serpent War.
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