A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

 

[Dave Palmer]

[Philip Portelli]

Brave and the Bold #124---The Fourth Wall's not just broken. It's ignored altogether! 

Still, this is one of the better Batman/Sgt. Rock team-ups!

[Richard Willis]

Green Lantern #24. How did the Guardians fit a planet with a ring, let alone one that fires yellow missiles?

[Peter Wrexham]

The planet seen here has nothing to do with the Guardians, at least not as far as can be gathered from this issue.  It's one of my favourite GL stories, which I recommended on Detective 445's discussion "The Definitive..........Green Lantern?", way back in 2014:

Peter Wrexham February 17, 2014 at 8:51pm

What is the greatest or definitive GL storyline? Definitive GL moment?

I'd commend the Silver Age tale "The Strange World Named Green Lantern" from GL #24 (October 1963), in which Hal, on a space mission, encounters and makes friends with a sentient planet!  It's wonderfully bizarre piece of SF told in about 8 pages.  Strangely enough, although it's illustrated on the cover, it takes second place in the issue.  The lead story is "The Shark that Hunted Human Prey", which is the first appearance of Hal's foe the Shark.

This tale could also be seen as prefiguring (or being the origin of) Mogo, who is a planet-sized member of the GL Corps introduced in Alan Moore's story "Mogo Doesn't Socialize" from GL #188 (May 1985). 

[JD DeLuzio]

They're small horns, but it is in the name, and 'tis even the season:

[Eric L. Sofer]

The Herculoids are getting another try at a series... and of course, that includes Zok and Tundro!

[Peter Wrexham]

Donald Duck having trouble with a wall-mounted Moose head.

[Steve W]

Furrlough #36

[Lee Houston, Junior]

More catch up. Today covers to make up for Friday and Monday. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Philip Portelli]

Even the reindeer know that she's going to get everything she wants! 

But will Santa?