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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Another increasingly problematic secret identity. Eventually explained away by " a wizard did it" no sorry, Odin. Then quietly forgotten. That's my unreliable memory of it.
And yet another Clark Kent Cover:
Barry (Flash) Allen gives Wally (Kid Flash) West a surprise.
This was the first back issue of Flash I ever bought, at the first comic book store I ever set foot in -- The Comic Vault on City Line Avenue in Philadelphia! What a mind-blowing day that was! (I was, unfortunately, unable to find a copy of the Showcase #4 I'd been dreaming of on the way over... which no doubt was priced out of reach of my 13-year-old budget even then.)
Technically, since Shiera doesn't have her mask on but her wings on... secret identity time.
Swanp Thing and Alec Holland---Two Separate Beings? Who'd believe that?
Action #407. There are literally dozens of these covers. It was DC's lifeblood!
Sometimes maintaining a secret identity is a question of who do you trust? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Jimmy Olsen #26
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