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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The first meeting between the Flash and another of his crosstime foes.
Out of all the superheroes, I think the Barry Allen Flash has the most time travel experience. Even his wife turned out to be from the future! (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Bill Slade puts together a horseless carriage in the year 1896. He then participates in a race to win the hand of his fiancée Betty Edwards. If he beats her father's horse and carriage then he will give consent to the marriage. Slade picks up speed and easily surpasses the horse and buggy. He is moving so fast that he soon finds himself in a time warp traveling to the future. He finally comes to a stop and finds himself in the year 1964. He is ticketed by a police officer for not having a license and registration. The rest, as they say, is history.
Flash #23
The crew of the Enterprise have visited the past a few times:
Superman may slightly have the edge...
In hindsight you might be right Peter, but I personally count most of the Legion encounters as being SuperBOY's.
Yup, sometimes the super heroes are the ones doing the time traveling.
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