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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Of course I forgot the greatest. Who was that masked man? I'm fairly sure he never appeared mask less but I can't be certain.
Well, sort of:
He does get unmasked in this episode. Except.... but that would be telling!
I used this clip in a video I made for my brother Jim's birthday, a few years ago. I managed to find all of the necessary video for the chorus of Croce's "You Don't Mess Around with Jim."
The two sides (and hair colors) of Captain Atom!
Jimmy Olsen #113. I assume the middle section of this cover appeared somewhere before.
Actually, I think that middle piece was an original for this 80 page giant. At a gues... Ross Andru and Mike Esposito?
Could I just point out that it would have been Cesar Romero's birthday today. To me, he was the definitive Joker, mainly because I enjoyed the TV series more than the movies (probably an age thing).
Cesar Romero, born 15 Feb 1907.
Sometimes accidents happen. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Hint: one of these is not really Barry (Flash) Allen.
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