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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Wow, where did August go? Well, a new month, a new theme.
My mother bought this for me when I was seven! I'm guessing that she just saw the Superman logo!
Still, this being really early in my comic book reading, it had a pseudo-Green Lantern crossover so that was cool.
And Lois Lane looks like Star Sapphire! Later I learned that she looks like Catwoman! Obviously, she missed her calling as a cosplayer!
My very first comic book was Action Comics 434 (May 1974). From the Nick Cardy cover to the letters page I read and reread that issue several times. However, with newstand distribution being what it was back then, I did not acquire a copy of 435 until years later to read the second half of what was actually a two part story. Hey, I was only 12 and just starting out, remember? (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
So September arrives and it's time for Nick Cardy covers. I have to start with this one - it's always been a favourite of mine. Nick Cardy at his finest. As you all probably know, he drew many romance covers as well as superhero ones.
This is the earliest Nick Cardy cover (September 1940) I've found on the GCD. I have to admit, I wouldn't have recognised it as his work!
Justice League #21. I had read about the Golden Age heroes in fanzines. Then I finally got to experience them.
Let's start with the basic, shall we?
To follow my earliest, this is the most recent Nick Cardy cover (ignoring reprints of earlier work) I've found, from November 2002.
More romance from me. Falling in Love no. 119 (Nov. 1970).
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