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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It was later revealed that Fantastic Four #19 wasn't the whole story. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Wonder Woman #82 (May 1956). According to the GCD's synopsis, "Paula [Von Gunther] sends Wonder Woman back to the time of Robin Hood".
“The Red-Headed Beatle of 1,000 B.C.!” by Leo Dorfman & George Papp.
I suspect Leo Dorfman didn’t know anything about the Beatles. He was 50 in 1964.
I wonder if Paul McCartney read this issue, and what he thought about it. We know he read Jimmy Olsen!
He probably read Magneto and Titanium Man, too.
I've never seen those!
Atom #6.Similar to Batman's hypnotic time travel, the Atom had a friend with something called a Time Pool.
A #44 for November 4:
Hercules and Samson again! You'd almost think they were gorillas for their frequent cover appearances!
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