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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This was the first one that came to mind for this month's theme.
It doesn't look it, but those are Hitler, Nero, and John Dillinger, Of course, two of those are concurrent with Superboy.
Realistically, any Legion story with Superman, Superboy, or Supergirl - or Mon-El or the Legion of Super Pets - is a crosstime adventure, of course.
Dillinger was a well-publicized criminal, but hardly a "greatest villain of all time." He only killed one person in his crimina; career.
In a very Weird Western, Batman goes back in time and teams up with Scalphunter...or does he?
Well, he thinks he does!
I just read Brave and Bold 171 on DC Universe Infinite. Unlike the majority of movies and comic books, the story has the Confederate side behaving badly. To make money in the South, the Confederate side has generally been portrayed nobly. Nobly defending slavery.
I can tell you that cannons were not self-propelled until WWII. They seem to be moving on their own in the story.
Rip Hunter is low hanging fruit but he does get the theme started for me
I always try to have a little fun with the monthly theme on weekends whenever possible, so to start off November's Crosstime Meetings, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Included on the cover are Ghengis Khan, Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon.
Eric's choice of Adventure #314 features Hitler, Nero and Dillinger in a crosstime meeting with the Legion, making it clearly suitable for this month's theme. I've picked a Legion cover from a different era that I feel also fits well, since it calls Supergirl "Strange Visitor From Another Century".
Our Army at War #23. The return of Irv Novick after a truly bad cover from Jerry Grandenetti. The only thing wrong with this one is that the hollow log would not stop the bullets from a full size machine gun.
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