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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Definite fodder for Hal's nightmares here, I feel.
ACG always presented ghosts as green.
Here's another example.
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See page 2954:
Ferro Lad's ghost tried again Steve, and brought help. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Lois Lane #22.
Lana's first adult cover appearance. GCD tells us that Showcase #9 was the first meeting of Lois and Lana. GCD doesn’t say if this was Lana’s first adult appearance, but I think it was. I have not been able to actually read the issue. One of the three stories is titled “The Girl From Superman's Past,” which sounds like an introduction. The DC Fandom Wiki says: Clark begins to sweat a bit when Lana wonders aloud how it's such a coincidence that both Superboy and Clark Kent left Smallville to take up shop in Metropolis at the same time.
This recalls the cover Dave Palmer posted on October 2, which was twenty issues earlier:
It's Superman with THE Grim Ghost!
Looks like the Two-Gun Kid borrowed the Lone Ranger's silver bullets and he'll need them!
Did they ever do a Lone Ranger Vs a Werewolf story?
Another instance of ghosts (the undead?) still existing in the Legion's era. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Another JLA horror cover.
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