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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In case you don't know, the lady in danger from the Joker is Dinah (Black Canary) Lance!
I guess they thought identifying her wouldn't help sales. At all.
Superboy #149. I absolutely loved this cover and begged my mum and dad to take me to the theatre to see the movie Bonnie and Clyde, which was showing at the time. Of course,my request fell on deaf ears as I was only 10 and the movie was rated "18". I'm happy to say I subsequently saw the film 10 years later.
Not only does this May 1962 cover show the standard super hero secret identity dilemma, but Curt Swan predicts the existence of a network over five decades before it becomes a reality. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
How would this end his career if he wrote "Clark Kent"--a big IF? He could simply concoct another guise.
It might end his career at the Planet, is all.
He had been Clark Kent since infancy, which would make it pretty traumatic.
I haven't read this, but if he wrote Kal-El that wouldn't be a lie. ( Though strictly speaking, not his secret identity)
I have read this. As far as I remember the story, he does write "Clark Kent". However, he does so at super-speed, so the blackboard catches fire and his words can't be read. Amazingly enough, he's not charged with contempt of court!
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Still not sure if these fit the criteria, He's recognised as Matt but not actually in his secret identity.
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