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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I have a second niece with a March birthday. This comic's cover date matches her birth month.
She's now a lawyer.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
Girls' Romances #54 September 1958. Nice to see that they used the apostrophe in the masthead!
With comics on monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly and eight to nine times a year release schedules back then, there was a Flash in March, 1962. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
June 1974: Marvel Two-In-One #5--my first issue of MTIO, naturally the second part of a two-parter!
It was the first time that I saw THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY which was probably true for most people as it was only their second appearance. Frankly, I didn't think much of these heroes from the future. They were no Legion!
Just right now I realized that Captain America had already went through the Secret Empire ordeal and had given up being Cap. Since this is a time travel story, it could have happened earlier but how earlier? Cap's not depressed like he was in The Avengers #126!
Justice League #27 and Jimmy Olsen #27
This would be the birth month for my other sister:
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
June 1974 (con't): I got three incredible 100 Pages that month including these two:
Batman #258--the first time I saw TWO-FACE and THE CAVALIER. It contained incredible reprints from the 40s to the 60s!
The Flash #229--A great Double Flash adventure and more great reprints and my introduction to JOHNNY QUICK. Plus the Flash meets PRINCESS LEIA! (lol)
For those following the Cap's ALL STAR COMICS thread and the dicussion on how old JAY GARRICK is today, back in 1974, they were implying that he might be over the hill!
My younger brother was born the month this comic was published.
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