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.

 

 

[JD DeLuzio]

Some beasts that bear antlers and in the air soar

And one bonus comic that's named 24:

[Captain Comics]

I never thought about where the Rudolph stories came from when I was buying Treasury editions. Honestly, I was so disappointed in DC's choice of topic that I barely read the Rudolphs. With the entire history of DC at their disposal, they chose a cartoon reindeer? I would skim the Rudolphs and think of all the 1940s and 1950s material I'd rather be reading. (Remember, this was before even the Archives reprints.) But recently I ran across the source material in GCD: 12 issues of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, published annually ffrom 1950 to 1961.

[JD DeLuzio]

And as other, more thoughtful people have noted: the song assumes we know Dasher and Dancer and so forth.... And then asks us, after making assumptions about our familiarity with these, apparently, less-famous reindeer, if we recall, supposedly, "the most famous reindeer of all."

[Richard Willis]

Unexpected #24

[Peter Wrexham]

Donald Duck and another wall-mounted Moose head.

[Dave Palmer]

[Lee Houston, Junior]

The final catch up. Yesterday and today. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

 

[Eric L. Sofer]

Reindeer you want? Reindeer I got! Happy holiday, Legionnaires!

[Richard Willis]

Merry Christmas

[JD DeLuzio]

(technically a magazine cover. Carteles once had the largest circulation of any magazine in Latin America)