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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Personally, I think the Batman needs to work on his Trick or Treat skills. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
The Smurfs must deal with their own "Zombie" Invasion! GNAP!
More Jimmy Olsen horrors.
Daredevil #22
My final Mad cover of the month:
It's the Egyptian curse of Horus!
Given the running joke about dead X-Men, the "Unliving X-Humed" are bottom of the barrel consisting of the Changeling (later Morph) who became an X-Men yet readers never knew it, the Living Diamond, a villain connected to Cyclops' "origin", Harry Leland, the Black Bishop of the Hellfire Club and Scaleface, one of the Morlocks!
Before this month's theme ends, here's a hero who hasn't had his turn in the non horror horror spotlight yet, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. At least it wasn't a cliched/over used werewolf in the full moon.
Coincidentally, these two consecutive issues of Superman (#236 & #237, April & May 1971) have horror covers, despite the stories illustrated being unrelated, as far as I can tell.
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