A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

 

[Richard Willis]

Strange Tales #26, by Carl Burgos and Unexpected #26, from the under-appreciated Bob Brown.

[MethodEng]

[Richard Willis]

Detective #225 (NOV55) had (all the way in the back) the debut of J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter. I wasn’t on hand for this issue, but I “met” him soon after. I think I remember both the Batman and MM stories in issue #228. A bad guy had a duplicate of Professor Erdel’s machine. I’m sure I remember issue #231, with the Martian criminal (yellow instead of green). So I met MM before my eighth birthday.  

[JD DeLuzio]

Sub-Mariner #26, drawn by Sal Buscema:

[Eric L. Sofer]

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Another (temporary) resignation. Yet, considering how the original Crisis on Infinite Earths turned out for him, maybe Barry should have stayed retired. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Steve W]

Supergirl #10 (2005). Great cover pic.

[Philip Portelli]

Martin Stein saves the day but doesn't even know it!

[Peter Wrexham]

And another...

Another (temporary) resignation. Yet, considering how the original Crisis on Infinite Earths turned out for him, maybe Barry should have stayed retired. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Dave Palmer]

More Billy, Mary, and Freddy