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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Those issues were the revised and colored story from the black & white Spectacular Spider-Man magazine (1968). There the Smasher was THE MAN-MONSTER! Pages were redrawn to reflect "current" continuity like having Joe Robinson replace Captain George Stacy who had since died.
The main villain was completely redrawn as THE DISRUPTER.
We interrupt this thread to bring you the following special announcement.
An oversize reissue of Spectacular Spider-Man #1-2 has been solicited for release December 10, 2025.
The first story will be in black & white halftones, and the second in color. Marvel released a standard-size reprint a couple of years ago, and althgouh I did buy it, I pre-ordered the bigger version as well. I have often cited Spectacular Spider-Man #2 as my favorite single-issue Spider-Man story (my favorite continued story being "The Stone Tablet Saga").
I assume they will be the same size as the original issues.
The Saga continues...
Tales to Astonish #20. A Kirby cover for Kirby's birthday!
The Monocle first appeared in FF 95 but didn't get a cover appearance. Disappeared until FF 205 I think but only got on the cover for FF 207.
The Maestro was such a minor villain that he didn't actually exist - he was a character in an imaginary story that a fan called Jerry Thomas sent to the JLA.
From the look of this cover, it's possible that The Maestro, a minor villain who fought The Mighty Crusaders, was inspired by reading Thomas' story.
There was also another minor villain called The Maestro who fought the JLA (using a keyboard rather than an organ), and who actually existed.
Let's add
In case someone doesn't already know, "Jerry Thomas" was a fake person combining the names of prominent fans Jerry Bails and Roy Thomas.
The Conqueror? Another villain who can beat every hero on Earth? But that trick NEVER works!
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