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]

Archie Comics thought that this joke was so hilarious, they used it twice:

 

[Eric L. Sofer]

Thanks Steve W. for the note. Sometimes it's hard to keep track. I think Super-ski is a brand new one...

[Steve W]

Liberty Meadows #30. This guy (Frank Cho) makes drawing an attractive upside-down girl on the ice look easy. Believe me, it's anything but!

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Another cover from the Golden Age that I seriously doubt would be used today except on a humor book. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Peter Wrexham]

Billy #3/2010 (8. februar 2010). Winter sports with Beetle Bailey, another American character who seems to go by a different name in Norway.

[Dave Palmer]

To pair with Beetle Bailey...

 

 

[Richard Willis]

Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #25

[JD DeLuzio]

Interspecific hockey:

[Eric L. Sofer]

Not exactly a sport, but shoveling the walk is a winter endeavor.

Well, not for Superboy...

[MethodEng]