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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Doctor Spektor had a run as a werewolf, which he tried to keep a secret. The series didn't quite make twenty-six issues, but I'm sure that this one was released on a significant date to someone:
Here's my transition cover. JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH. One last secret identity... darn those flame dragons anyhow!
For the 26th month, there are 26 people on this cover (including the vignette of the Thing).
(I would have posted this on the 26th, but I had to verify the count. Some of the bystanders are cropped from the lower left of this image, but check out the over-size version in The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby Vol. 1, 1961-1964.)
I'm afraid I haven't found a suitable transisition cover to get us from February to March but I'm posting this instead. Although it doesn't actually reveal a secret identity, Supergirl's actions apparently give her identity away. I bought this comic in the summer of 1968 whilst on holiday in Devon and it's holiday I remember fondly, especially this comic. I still have it.
Man Comics #26, dated May 1953 (my birth month), so that's my transition cover.
Real life is getting very busy for me, and covers for May 1953 are rather limited, so I'm probably not going to be very active here in March.
To close out February, one of the most iconic secret identity reveals in any medium. (Cover from the Grand Comics Database. Photo via Google.)
These are my transition covers: the first one was cover-dated September 1965 and Starfinger's secret identity is right one the cover!
The next were actually on sale in September 1965. I'm sure the Flash cover was used before and with the second, I've trid to avoid Clark Kent but that's not Clark!
A transition on sale the month I was born
Detective #27. First appearance of this guy.
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