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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Fantastic Four #26. Too bad they didn't enlarge Jack's artwork and lose the blurbs. Is Rick Jones trying to kill himself?
Many of these covers show the hero in peril of unmasking or in peril and unable to react for fear of unmasking.
This one's a bit different. I do like Peter's Charlie Brown shirt though.
As has already been noted, Banner's connection to Hulk wasn't secret for long. Nevertheless, this cover shows us Banner, and the green shadow that follows him:
Is it Clark Kent? Well, Lois is calling him that and he's wearing the glasses...
Adventure #301. Superboy was obsessed with his secret identity. So much so that I can't help worrying that it interferred with his crimefighting. I suspect that a modern Superboy, born in the 21st century, would have been sent to therapy by his parents.
There is just something about the Silver Age... (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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