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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Challengers of the Unknown #23 and Sea Devils #23
I'm not adverse to saving money, but I have so many issues with "Black Friday" that I must protest. So for today's cover, here's issue #23 of a comic about a certain eldritch abomination:
In my capacity as Editor-In-Chief of The Free Choice E-zine, I post the following every Black Friday...
SOME DARE BRAVE THE GLOOM OF BLACKEST NIGHT,
QUESTING FOR BARGAINS UPON THEIR TREK,
TO HIT EVERY SALE BEFORE DAYLIGHT.
ME? I PLANNED WELL AHEAD.
NO NERVES, CREDIT, OR CAR SUFFERED WRECK.
JUST RESTFUL SLUMBER WITHIN MY OWN BED.
Found another Hercules and Samson cover for Superman. Throw in Atlas for good measure!
Curt Swan drew three different types of sandals for his three mythological muscle-men. And, without looking, I bet he kept it consistent every time he drew one of them. The man was amazing.
And, without looking, I bet [Curt Swan] kept it consistent every time he drew one of them.
He did, indeed. Actually, every time Hercules, Samson, or Atlas appeared in one of the Superman family of comics, their looks were kept consistent, regardless of the artist. I've often considered doing a Deck Log Entry on that.
Holy Moley! Two crosstime meetings with people of the future for Captain Marvel (plus - possibly even more exciting! - a visit to Kansas City, Mo). Sadly, the Legion of Super Heroes doesn't seem to be there to meet him "1,000 years from now".
And now we resume our regular cover postings with this unique time travelling adventure, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Uncle Scrooge Adventures #19. A wonderful homage cover, Uncle Scrooge gets a glimpse of the past and the future at the same time.
The Zoo Crew get split up and sent across the past to meet Golden Age characters:
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