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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Plastic Man #25 from September 1950. Art throughout by Jack Cole. A great comic, aside from the rather lazy stereotyping of a guy from Scotland. A quote from inside: "Woozy! What are you drinking? There wasn't any water in that pitcher before! You just drank Mr. Aqua!"
Who needs snow to go skiing? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
DC Comics Presents #25--Superman must find a way to rescue Jon Ross from an alien destiny unaware that the Phantom Stranger is trying to save the Man of Steel's soul from Tala!
Plus "Whatever Happend To Hourman?" Answer: Not much.
Brave and the Bold #125--Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen must negotiate with an Asian drug lord. What does an escaped convict and missing aviator have to do with it and can Batman and the Flash save them both?
P.S. I got this one for Christmas 1975!
Atlas pre-Code. Strange Tales #25 and Journey into Unknown Worlds #25
Another recent Spider-man variant cover, with a couple of winter sports:
They're peculiar penguins... they probably have singular pastimes.
Skiing is easy enough, as long as you go by the book.
Is it time for ice sailing? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Atlas under the Code. Tales to Astonish #25 and Tales of Suspense #25
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