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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More romance from me. Falling in Love no. 119 (Nov. 1970).
Teen drama hits the World's Finest Fathers or are they?
I can't imagine what a new reader thought of this? Oh wait, I do because I was one of them a little later!
This is one of my favorite Nick Cardy covers. The Lois Lane figure, while relatively simple, is quite beautiful. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Fantastic Four #21. Nick Fury's first appearance as a spy (with the CIA). Still no fashion sense.
Just great covers on the Justice League of America!
"Do you bleed? Do you BLEED? Just don't say M'Artha!"
When I first saw this at my then LCS, I was shocked! The thought of the Martian Manhunter in a starring role was mindboggling to young me, I actually believed that this was a rare comic!
M'Artha! Why did you say that N'Ame?
Much as I love Curt Swan's work, I feel that Nick Cardy's cover for the reprint of "The Lad Who Wrecked the Legion" is significantly better than the original. But poor Ultra Boy - such an undignified pose on both covers!
My first issue of Wonder Woman also had a Nick Cardy cover. I would only acquire three parts of her self imposed twelve labors to rejoin the Justice League, with my next issue after that suddenly putting her back in World War Two because of first season of the Lynda Carter TV series. It wouldn't be until decades later when I acquired an Ebook copy of The 12 Labors that I read the whole saga. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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