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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Amazing #87 and Spectular #87 both have Peter Parker revealing his identity, with the former most literally fitting this month's theme (but when have we not bent the rules a bit at this thread?):
It doesn't have the images of Clark, Bruce, and Dick - but it DOES have their full identities. Does this qualify?
You want secret identities? I'll give you secret identities!
Superboy #144. It seems like Clark let his secret identity slip every other cover.
Of course, trying to establish a secret identity can be a chore too. Then again the Silver Age, before they figured out that heat and X-ray vision were two different powers. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
However, he did invent heart-shaped glasses. But did Kubrick ever give him a penny for that poster? Nooooo.....
I reckon that a cover counts if the hero's secret identity is shown, whether or not the other characters on the cover know that's who it is. It's sufficient that we, the readers, know this. YMMV, of course!
I've been without internet access for a few days, so I've a bit of catching up to do. My first missed post is a much more recent JLA (#51, April 2001), this time with only two secret identities shown. Of course, they're Superman/Clark Kent, and Batman/Bruce Wayne.
A different cover revealing Daredevil/Matt Murdock. This time he isn't wearing dark glasses under his mask!
Finally, to bring me up to date, a cover revealing Clark Kent to be Bizarro's secret identity rather than Superman's!
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