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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I suppose the fact that Clark Kent is a "secret identity" as well-known and easily recognized as his heroic side accounts for why he's on so many covers.
(See the "Batgirl, the Dominoed Daredoll" thread for a closer look at this comic.)
This one is certainly Bruce Wayne. Is it Clark Kent? I guess kinda...
How did comic and SF artists of a bygone era imagine that far-future women and superintelligent humanoid aliens gave birth?
Let's hope they figured out a better way than the current method, which kills hundreds of thousands of women globally every year. I understand your point about the big heads, but it's already not working very well!
Probably the same way my 4'11" mom gave birth to a 6'1" 275 lb me. I didn't get a lot of piggy back rides either.
The Adventures of Superman #525. I actually chose this cover yesterday evening, but then decided to draw it, rather than post it. I'm quite pleased with the result, except that in my drawing, his right hand looks terrible and out of shape. I'll rub it out and have another go tomorrow.
At Jessica Drew's hospital bed!
She-Hulk's thinking, "There but for the grace of God, go I!"
"The Mystery of Flash's Third Identity".
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