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 younger brother was born the month this comic was published.
And on a slightly different note, I've been watching the ' No Kings' demonstrations throughout the US posted on BlueSky this evening. This banner struck me as being particularly accurate. Good luck all!
A cover a day doesn't necessarily keep the doctor away.
Challengers #27 and Strange Tales #27
My brother's birth month:
This cover is, like, dada.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH. The one behind the Kryptonite men was Lex Luthor, so this cover doesn't quite qualify for a transition cover to next month...
June 1974 (con't): Another wonderful 100 Pager, this time Justice League of America #113! Yes, the MONSTER SANDY issue. Contrary to Captain Comics' wishes, it is still in continuity. A very strange coda to THE SANDMAN and his costumed era!
Also, there have been compaisons with Giant-Size Avengers #1 with its giant yellow menace NUKLO who too was connected to a guilt ridden Golden Age hero, in this case THE WHIZZER!
I also got Superboy #204! Like other early characters I encountered, I thought ANTI-LAD was a big deal! And I learned about the SUPERGIRL/BRAINIAC 5 relationship! Actually a lot more than I needed! Brainy was one kinky guy!
Couldn't help missing yesterday, so time for double the fun from March 1962, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
My sister was born in March 1971. I bought this when she was one (US comics took one year to get to Britain). It has a Neal Adams cover!
On sale October 1958
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