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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For Halloween, two pre-Code horrors from Atlas
Happy Halloween!
The jokes (see interior version, below) are pretty bad, but John Severin has assembled an impressive crowd of classic monsters.
Of course, those monsters aren't all from the same era....
Here's this month's transition cover for your perusing pleasure.
I started last month with a cover featuring the PHANTOM STRANGER and ending this month's with the Man of Mystery helping Batman against a vampiric Superman in World's Finest Comics!
An actual transition cover between October's Non Horror Comic's Horror Cover and November's Crosstime Meetings. As usual, there is a lot more to the story than the cover reveals, but it does help close out the month. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Not at all coincidentally, these two consecutive issues of The Beano (#3857 & #3858, 22nd & 29th October 2016) have horror covers. I suspect that the stories illustrated may be related.
Let's see if this works as a transition. A horror character from a few hundred years ago in a superhero comic
My final cover of the month. I couldn't track down a transition cover, but this cover is fairly Halloween-ish. Looking forward to next month's crosstime meetings covers.
Spider-Man #23
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