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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JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH.
A classic from March 1962 before the Doom Patrol started. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
June 1974: A big month! I got a lot of books so this is going to be four days!
Amazing Spider-Man #136--My first issue of Amazing! Harry Osborn becomes the second GREEN GOBLIN! I completely missed the Gwen Stacy turmoil!
Captain America #177--I would get the next two Caps but miss out on the Nomad issues. I was also getting back issues by this point. I had Avengers #122 so I knew who Aries II was from Zodiac as he got merged with Lucifer!
Marvel Triple Action #20--at this stage, I would have more MTA than Avengers! But I loved these issues! I would have loved a series called "The Man Called Hawkeye"!
Two painted covers numbered 27. I don't think that's supposed to be Marco Polo on the second cover.
I don't know the cover date of this eight-pager, but today is the birthday of Benito Juárez.
It's also International Day of Forests, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, World Poetry Day, World Down Syndrome Day, and International Day of Nowruz. That is far too much to put on one day!
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH.
It's the weekend, so time for a little fun from March 1962, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Superman #53 was on sale when I was born. Star-Spangled #81 was cover-dated June 1948, my birth month.
If only superheroes were real. Or we had fewer evil people. One of the lesser-known members of the 27 club, Mia Zapata, died on July 7, 1993, almost the date of this periodical (Okay, I'm off by two years, but the cover seemed suited to the subject). The lead singer and lyricist for the then-upcoming Seattle punk/grunge band, she was beaten, sexually assaulted, and murdered. Several noteworthy Seattle-area bands held a fundraiser for the investigation, and hired a P.I. A decade would pass before her killer was brought to justice. One of the bands that participated in the fundraiser and tried to publicize the case was Nirvana. The lead singer of that band, of course, would also die at 27, and his death would lead to widespread re-mainstreaming of the "27 Club" mythos.
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