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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The earliest example of this month's theme that I could find. It was the Golden Age, but hopefully Superman knows better now. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Detective Comics #26 (Batman minus 1)
Following on from my previous cover, the last secret identity cover for Bruce. At least as far as I know.
Bruce seems to have bulked (not Hulked) up some.
Does this count?
For what it's worth my opinion is yes. It's widely known that Bruce is the Hulk at this stage but Bruce and Hulk are alternative identities so why not.
As I've said before I come to look at the pretty pictures and maybe find something new to read and the topic is open to wide nterpretation.
Plus of course it's not my thread I just contribute occasionally.
Another Clark Kent Cover:
It's little Bruce Wayne as Bruce-El on Krypton!
Ray (The Atom) Palmer appearing out-of-uniform.
Dick Grayson and Wally West walk away from Robin the Boy Wonder and Kid Flash ("Twinkletoes")!
And they meant it, even though Wally became Kid Flash during the Crisis.
I'm sure that I had my doubts at the time!
There is no doubt in my mind that Superboy/man is the one character who's identity was at the most risk, at least through the Silver Age. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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