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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Not to step on Jeff of Earth-J's toes, but Batman #260 was either my first or second "new" Joker story, combined with Brave and the Bold #111, which came out first but I didn't get it off the newsstand like I did Batman #260. I got The Joker #1 soon after!
My first Joker story was Detective Comics #388.
My second Joker story was B&B #111, five years later.
I had no idea that it was only the Joker's second appearance after a five-year hiatus; that was just dumb luck. where I am at now in the Joker discussion (1948), the Joker has already stolen the Batmobile at least twice (maybe three times, I forget). When I quipped that it would be a quarter century before he devised a way to [prevent that, this is the story I was alluding to.
I guess we both just missed Batman #251!
In the debate: Cardy - horror or romance, after seeing this cover I'm coming down on the side of romance.
Nick Cardy was no slouch in any genre he tackled, but this cover combined two for a very happy moment. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)\
Batman: "yes, it's a happy occasion and all but there's no way we can enjoy the cocktail hour! And I'm getting waterlogged! By the way, Diana, how ARE you breathing?"
Wonder Woman: "Magic earrings, of course!"
Batman: "Of course! Sheesh!"
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