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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Just to prove that I've not completely disappeared, one of the few cover from my birth month (May 1953) that actually appeals to me, Strange Adventures #32.
Real life is still horribly busy, so I'll probably continue to be mostly absent in April. I'd also point out that we have no themes decided for May and beyond, so perhaps it's time for someone to start proposing themes. Head on over to the Nominations thread to do so - you don't have to wait for me!
Here are a couple of transition covers from October 1958 (on sale). I don't count the eagle as a super villain.
One aspect of comic books I've loved over the years is the reprint issues. The 80 and 100 page giants, DC's Digest program of the late 1970s to early 1980s. Individual themed reprint series. You get the idea. Unfortunately the 80 pages didn't start until after I was born in March 1962 and I don't have that many of them or the 100 pagers even from back issue sources, but here's my very first 100 pager from DC published just a few months after I started reading (and I do stress the R word) comics, and not a super villain in sight. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Spider-Man #28. A really cool Ditko cover.
Joe Smith is the antagonist but not a true supervillain. Plus it's an iconic Ditko Spider-Man figure.
Ditko's last issue, either he didn't do a cover or Stan Lee wasn't happy with it. This made up of interior panels.
I know that the MCU makes Agatha Harkness a villain, but the comics have handled her differently, so the only villain here is the person who set the colours (for April 1):
Courtesy of this article on the value of comics containing errors: https://www.qualitycomix.com/learn/error-comics-their-value
Agatha is also young-looking now in the comics, and (or so I gather) handled a little more closely to the MCU version.
I think that's supposed to Luthor on the cover, but it IS a humor book, no doubt.
Hawk and The Dove #5. A wonderful Gil Kane cover. Not a supervillain in sight!
For the first day of April's theme of no super villains, here's a stunning cover featuring every member past and present of the legendary Justice League in all its various incarnations.
Or at least, it would have been if the art team hadn't panicked at the thought of drawing all those characters.
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY! (No super villains courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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