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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A great Nick Cardy cover, but does anyone have any idea how many shirts Clark Kent has gone through over the years, to date? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Buddy (Animal Man) Baker.
Star Spangled #26 (layout by Kirby) and X-Men #26 (villain by Kirby)
Two not-so-secret identities, but they're in non-superheroic if non-civilian clothes, Logan presumably hasn't established his public identity as Wolverine, and Ben hasn't rocked out yet:
Three from World's Finest including a new super identity for Kal-El
The former Kid Flash, Wally (Flash) West.
There are secret identities and there are identities with secrets!
Including another Kryptonian level previously-unheard-of Superman villain
It's February 22 so for 2-22, a double feature courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Wanted to get here sooner, but I had to prepare for Blizzard Calvin, as the local media are calling it. Blizzard Hobbes probably would be easier to handle, but I'm not that lucky. If unable to post tomorrow, I will make up for lost time once electricity and/or Internet service is restored in my neck of the woods. Until then...
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