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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Strange Adventures #26. Legs that probably wouldn't have made it past the Code.
A She-Hulk #26. She has less muscle and curve than usual here. Kind of un-hip, if you ask me.
Because sometimes Kal has a devil of a time getting around... get the point?
I've done Supes, and Superboy, and also some Lois Lane covers. Now I'm switching to Supes best mate, although, from many of these covers, I suspect that was often questionable.
I wouldn't want to hang out with these two!
Batman's identity was occassionaly at risk, even in the Bronze Age. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Firestorm and his two secret identities, Professor Martin Stein and Ronnie Raymond.
Spider-Man #26. Start of a Two-Parter.
Spoiler here for 60 year old story. The guy with the rock is an out of costume Human Top. Who later bothered Hank and Jan as the Whirlwind in another secret identity.
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