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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On weekends I try to have some fun with the monthly theme whenever possible and for March 1962, since this character hasn't shown up... (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
January 1974: Superman #274 had one of the most frightening covers that I had seen at that time. It was an odd story about a "super protection racket" that used incredible weapons that looked like sports equipment!
The Superman Family #164: the very first issue, continuing the numbering of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen though I wouldn't know that for years! I really like those early SF issues as getting only two Jimmy, Lois Lane and Supergirl stories a year seem to force them to make them less corny. I always thought that Jimmy as Mister Action was a bigger deal! And they cherrypicked the best reprints even including Krypto and Perry White!
Showcase #27 (introducing the Sea Devils) and Sea Devils #27
Beware
Mike's Amazing World of Comics shows these four books on sale April 1977. I wasn't buying comics then but have since added them to my collection. The common factor is pretty obvious. Why that date, it's the month I got married and amazingly enough, despite me filling large areas of our home with comic boxes and bookcases full of reprint titles, we are still together.
Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #9 (Aug 1958). Pencils & inks by Maurice Whitman (alledgedly).
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
This one IS from my birth month. The Superboy cover isn't, but they're so close, I thought I'd include them both.
On sale the month I was born
February 1974: A big month for me! A very big month!
The Flash #227: My first issue of this title! Someone from Captain Boomerang's past appears! Plus an out of control Green Lantern!
Justice League of America #111: The Injustice Gang! Libra! The Seven Soldiers of Victory! Brain Storm! The splash page only fueled me wanting action figures of all this characters! (Still waiting for a classic Chronos!)
World's Finest Comics #223: Batman's Killer Brother! (Almost needed therapy for that one!) The Composite Superman! Elton Craig (another guy I thought was a major baddie early on!)
And the first time that I saw DEADMAN and ROBOTMAN and, oh yeah, THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES which had an ongoing impact on my life!
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