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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It's my brother-in-law's birthday today. This one came out on this date, last year:
He's not a comic book guy, though my niece and nephew have some definite nerdy interests.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH.
Apparently, the reason for the odd-looking promo for the Kid Flash story is that it originally promoted the intended Elongated Man story. At the last minute, they had to make the substitution when they realizaed that the Elongated Man story wasn't ready.
May 1974: My first issue of Captain America was #176 and that one, needless to say, was a doozy! And it made me buy the next few issues! Also my first time seeing THE FALCON. Later I would get his MEGO action figure!
Action Comics #438: Yet another Superman book and this one featuring a transformed Lois Lane for not the first nor last time!
Bonus: Action Plus with THE ATOM!
Outer Space, from Charlton, cover date Sept/Oct 1958.
And, on the subject of Outer Space, I found, and bought, this wonderful paperback book from a used bookstore at a National Trust shop in Staffordshire today. It's "Science Fiction Art: The Fantasies of SF" compiled by Brian Aldiss and originally published in 1975. It's an amazing book measuring 15" by 10" and I bought it for just six pounds!
I love science fiction, and DC was great at it. Here's two classics from my birth month of March 1962, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Fantastic Four #27 and Daredevil #27
It's not remotely as warm here as what Jeff of Earth-J reports from his corner of the woods, but here's an issue for the first day of spring:
And a bonus Canadian 27:
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH.
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