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.

 

 

[Peter Wrexham]

The Grand Comics Database has just announced:

We reached 1,325,000 comic covers !
The milestone cover was the cover by Mathieu Lampron for the issue Le démon du hockey published by Glénat Québec.

Here's the relevant (winter sports) cover.

[Peter Wrexham]

This Norwegian cover (Alt Om Ski, 2013) seems to show a biathlete, the background figure with rifle and skis.

Biathlon is an Olympic sport.  There aren't many biathlon covers out there.

[Eric L. Sofer]

The World's Finest Skiers!

[Lee Houston, Junior]

With JD's post I couldn't resist adding one of my own. It's Scooby and Shaggy going for Team Skiing Gold. Extra points for avoiding the Abominable Snowman. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Steve W]

Tweety and Sylvester #35.

[Dave Palmer]

[Philip Portelli]

Donald Duck ice-fishing and he didn't plan it well!

 

[Dave Palmer]

[Richard Willis]

Two snow-sport covers from the Duck family.

[JD DeLuzio]

A 1976 one-shot promoting "Supergear" ski and winter clothing: