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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To this day I have never quite figured out whether Archie is accident prone or just unlucky. Yet one can see how the comedy arises from those moments. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Spider-Man #25. After funding the creation of the Scorpion and earlier versions of Smythe's Spider-Slayers, Jameson went more hands-on. Plus the introduction of Mary Jane Watson with her face obscured.
Ok, this is promo poster and not a comic book, but it does suit the theme and the date:
The Ultimate skier!
Plug, previously seen curling, participates in a different winter sport on the cover of Plug #8 (Nov 12th 1977).
I'm not actually sure that this is a winter sport, but it sure takes a lot of skill to write in the snow in that way...
Snow sledding can be fun, under the right conditions. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Detective Comics #25 (Batman minus two)
Fury on snow.
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