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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Neal Adams cover. "The Stranger Who Stalks Smallville."
Batman usually fights the Scarecrow. Flash wants to save it? It seems like every superhero ventures into horror terroritory once in a while but a bigger mystery (to me) in this issue is why is the Kid Flash notation noticably different than everything else? Was a different back up story planned and not ready in time? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The DC Fandom Wiki says:
The cover for this issue was originally mis-labeled saying "A new Elongated Man Story!", when in reality it was a new Kid Flash story. The new Elongated Man story appeared in the following issue. This error was never fixed in the collected editions or the omnibus.
Without knowing anything myself, GCD tells me that Ralph Dibney and Sue went on their honeymoon in that story. Maybe they decided to tweak that story and use the Kid Flash one instead. Then forgot they did that until the last minute.
Batman #22 was the first cover appearance of Alfred. It was in the year following the release of the Batman serial. Previously depicted as overweight and clean-shaven, Alfred was depicted thereafter as slim and mustached to match the actor in the serial.
While working my way through various Batman omnibuses, I was surprised to discover how many solo and/or feature stories Alfred had in the Golden Age. He even had his own back-up feature for a while (as Lois Lane did in Superman). I was considering an "Adventures of Alfred" discussion before I decided on Batman villains. Maybe "someday.
Most of us know, or can guess, witch character made her debut in FF #94:
I see whatcha did there.
I found this cover unnerving... even a little scary, yeah.
How did Superman 2020 deal with the pandemic?
Horror on a Western comic.
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