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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Batman met a post war Sgt. Rock a few times within The Brave and the Bold, but this is the only team up where Batman went back to World War 2.
HAPPY VETERANS DAY! (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Batman didn't have to go back. This issue took place on Earth-Two so he was already there!
I don't have this one in my collection, so never read it. Just thought the cover appropriate for this month's theme but it still works for Veterans Day.
We musn't forget The Brave and the Bold #124, which has the most wonderfully loopy plot: Sgt. Rock is on the trail of terrorists who have stolen a shipment of high-tech rifles, and the terrorists come out of the story pages and tell artist Jim Aparo what to draw!
Beyond the absurd cover, the short-run Captain Savage went through several changes but at least we knew that he had to succeed with this one, otherwise Clobberin' Time is over!
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Here's another occasion when Superman had a crosstime meeting with his Kryptonian parents. This trip doesn't seem to have gone at all smoothly, even with Batman along to help.
(Notice that Superman retains his powers of super-exposition, even under a red sun!)
The Rook also fits this month's theme nicely
Someone mentioned this guy just the other day:
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