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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An intriguing cover for a story I haven't read. But a quick online check reveals it's linked to the Clone Saga. So I think I'm going to pass.
Two Atlas pre-Code Journeys numbered 26.
Although the cover is not numbered, this is Beagle Boys #26, and....
One of the stories features a "secret identity" reveal of sorts:
Hawkgirl without her mask again. (Jay Garrick always showed his face on the comics page, but he blurred his features so it dpesn't really count.)
And here's Flash #26 too.
I just occurred to me that the first Superman/Green Lantern DC Comics Presents issue also fits this month's theme!
Though I have been trying not to use Clark Kent or Peter Parker.
Jimmy Olsen #132. Still on the same old kick.At least he looks guilty in this one.
Here, Batman seems to be rather blase about having to abandon his millionaire identity.
To be or not to be... (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Fantastic Four #26. Too bad they didn't enlarge Jack's artwork and lose the blurbs. Is Rick Jones trying to kill himself?
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