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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I posted this not so long ago under another theme, so I won't repeat it all. The first half of the story brings us into a particular kind of horror, and some disturbing subtext. Wonder Woman, or at least her creative team, takes Wertham to heart.
Though I still laugh at the fact that THEM! appears in uppercase red throughout the story, even when someone pens a hastily-composed note about them.
I never read any of the Superman Family series. Were they new stories, or just re-runs of earlier DC stuff? this seems to catch the month's theme adequately.
The Super Spectacular Superman Family had one new story, with the lead character of the month, and alll reprints for the rest of the book. But that was the format of most of the Suoer Spectaculars, and if you wanted to collect reprints - it was a great way to get some!
Try to imagine the interior dimensions of the room the guy is hanging out the window of.
Also note that the Rawhide Kid seem to be taller than the Belle Union Saloon is wide!
Looking forward for the story that establishes that there was an outbreak of Pym Particles behind this scene.
Another horror cover with the Flash's wife in peril.
There's a lot of skeletons in the Legion's multitude of closets!
Sometimes it wasn't the Flash's wife Iris in peril. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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