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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My first Marvel was Amazing Spider-man 185, probably because of the Nicholas Hammond TV series. But in March 1962, the wall crawler's debut was still several months away. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Avengers #27, back when Wanda wasn't all-powerful.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
That's Space Ghost's pet. Fooling around with another alien artifact. Jan and Jace are gonns be pissed...!
My birth month fell in the summer/autumn (fall) of 1958. Keeping it vague means I can post more covers. Here's Wonder Woman #100 (Aug 1958).
Nothing struck me for March 1973 and I made a mistake! World's Finest Comics #218 was not for February but for April!
There were two books for May 1973 but I doubt that I had them new but they were still early books of mine!
Brave and the Bold #108 stirred strong memories for me and no matter when I got was the first time I saw SGT. ROCK.
I know that I had a coverless copy of Doc Savage #6, which started my interest in the Man of Bronze!
While I read both from DC, for some reason I'm more into teams and team ups at Marvel than the individual characters. Except for Spider-man, Howard the Duck and the Silver Surfer; I follow the Avengers, the Defenders, the Fantastic Four and the X-men. But in March 1962, only one was in publication at the time. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Another cover on sale in October of 1958. A rarity for Dell: a cover with a speech balloon. But then what would you expect from a comic featuring Francis, the Talking Mule.
Detective #136 was cover dated June 1948. Detective #138 was on sale that month.
My return to comics began with this, bought in Dec of 1995. I hadn't thought about comics for over two decades then a couple of things happened. The animated series Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and the X-Men appeared on UK TV and my children were watching. Then Jack Kirby died and that made the UK newspapers, this started an itch.
So I went along to my nearest comic book store that stocked back issues, of course I was mildly surprised at the prices they were asking . My intention was just to try and replace the books I used to have , mainly Lee and Kirby Fantastic Fours, the ones I could afford of course.
But like many " addictions " this rapidly grew into full immersion in everything comics. The increasing availability of quality reprints made this much more achievable.
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