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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I'm afraid this is the closest I can get to a transition cover this month. I'm assuming that Santa, sledging on your rooftop,
is a winter sport...
I've never eaten there, but I note that they've put out some promotional comics featuring "Amazing Cow Heroes," and "Cold Cuts" does appear to be skating or ice-sliding or something that might constitute a winter sport:
To transition to January's "Winter Sports" theme, let me offer Donald Duck, indulging in that well-known winter sport of rounding up reindeer from kangaroo back.
I cannot understand why this isn't in the Winter Olympics.
Here's my transition cover for this New Year. Happy and healthy and safe New Year to you and yours!
My transition cover between horned animals and winter sports. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Another year, another month, and another theme. Marvel Treasury #25 came to my mind immediately:
I've never seen this painted cover before! Who did it?
If my information is correct, someone named Mike Peden used computers and other techniques to recreate several iconic covers in this fashion.
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