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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Marvel Two-In-One #23--the second part of the Thing/Thor battle against Seth, the Egyptian god of death!
One of his vivtims was HORUS, the sun-god who was the Egyptian counterpart to Thor but he never became as important as Hercules and the later Celtic god Leir.
Kind of obnoxious, calling poor Ben a "man-brute".
Adventure #304.I know red kryptonite caused this but its still a kind of time-travel incident.
Lois Lane travels further back in time than Jimmy, and meets Superman's parents before their marriage. Try not to think about how this could have ended up with Superman never being born. Or, if you're using Silver Age logic, with Superman being Lois's son!
Some series ( e.g., Rip Hunter, Superboy in the LSH) fit this month's theme perfectly. Here is another
Avengers #23. Kang showing up is a crosstime meeting.
For November 11, a First World War time-travel cover.
Of course, Superman himself also time-travelled back to Krypton and met his parents before he was born.
Here is another series that fits this month's theme nicely
Good Veteran's Day to all those who have served - thank you Commander Benson!
Thanks to everybody - even the combat happy joes of Easy Company!
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