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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Blackhawk #19, before he came to DC, cover dated June 1948.
This was published in October of '83 but dated January of '84. Somewhere in or soon after that time, I picked up one in a bus station. By ninth grade, I had abandoned comics. I was now in uni and it was reading this, and discovering Crisis and some of the weightier 80s graphic novels a year later, that led me to start looking at comics again.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
On the weekends, I try to have some fun with the monthly theme whenever possible. While JD posted the Avengers meeting David Letterman, long before Assistant Editor's Month, Spider-man got into the act with one of my favorite team ups of all time. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Auguts 1973's strongest memory is Marvel Team-Up #15 when Spidey met THE GHOST RIDER. And so did I! I never got any Ghost Rider solo books outside a b&w British reprint where he fought the Hulk but I knew him from Marvel Two-In-One #8 and The Champions #1 as well!
Superboy #67, September 1958 (my birth quarter). Good to see Curt Swan plying his trade even when I was zero years old.
Lois Lane #27. In the words of Emily Litella, "it's always something."
I haven't read that one, but I recall seeing it somewhere, probably a Superman Family featurette with a title along the lines of, "The Many Changes of Lois Lane." Lois Lane gets a super-brain, and all she can do is cry about being ugly?
Here's a #27 for International Women's Day:
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
It's INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY but back in March 1962, not many women had their own series. While there were romance books aplenty, most ladies were in supporting roles. Of those who did have their own titles, amazingly three actually had an issue dated my birth month. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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