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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This is the story that made me realize that Wonder Woman never had a civilian identity before the "Mod Era Diana Prince" debuted back in 1968's "Wonder Woman #178".
This JLA story has the Leaguers switch to their secret identities and there isn't even any comment when for Wonder Woman that means putting on Diana Prince's USAF uniform. Diana Prince may have had a civilian life before 1968, but it sure wasn't put front and center.
I just have to lead with this one, especially as I see it every day when I log on to this site.
Looking forward to a few Marvel covers this month. Now, if only the Fantastic Four had secret identities...
Unlike DC, Marvel weren't that hot on the old "secret identity" saga. The X Men, The Fantastic Four and many of The Avengers didn't bother with secret identies. However, this guy did.
Is this anyway to treat "da idol o'millions"?
I got this one on Christmas 1975!
During this month we'll see plenty of people trying to figure out who the superhero is, the hero trying to protect their civilian identity and at times even establishing an alternate, like this one courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Another Linda Lee Danvers cover. This was during the era where Supergirl had multiple costumes of varying designs:
House of Secrets #26. I definitely bought this issue.
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