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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As it happens, PS Artbooks is reprinting the Charlton Billy the Kid as we speak! I imagine there a lot Billy the Kids in comics.
I think the plural is "Billies the Kid." ;)
I almost typed that, but didn't want to add to my reputation as a pedant. I guess that ship has sailed.
Remember these are teenagers going into their own graves!
Then again, they are Marvel Mutants so it may be better if they get used to it.
Sugar and Spike #80(Jan 1969). The cover artist was Sheldon Mayer, who also wrote the story.
On weekends I try to have a little fun with the monthly theme when possible. However even if it qualifies for Non Horror Horror, using Scooby Doo covers would be way too easy so I hope you like this one, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Green Lantern #22. Hector Hammond, a villain who had his brain enhanced (and his head made extremely large) is controlling the ring.
This is definitely one of the weirder vampire/werewolf/graveyard stories I've read.
Since the story that this cover illustrates is written by John Broome, the resolution turns out to be science fiction rather than horror. It's still a great horror image by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson, though!
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