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 was thinking about some villains whose first appearances didn't make the covers of their DC books: Superman foe Metallo*, Flash foe Captain Cold and Green Lantern foe The Shark. There are probably others.
*Metallo's first appearance and death (he got better) was buried behind Supergirl's first appearance.
A non-super villain cover usually involved some heroic or symbolic pose, like this classic, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
I once read that Neal Adams came to dislike this cover because the anatomy is kind of wonky, particularly on Superman's left leg.
Can't say as I had ever noticed a problem, especially as other artist make wonky anatomy part and parcel of their style.
Classic Illustrated #28. Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne. Huh? Michael Strogoff - Wikipedia
I never read any comics growing up in regards to Spider man or Superman just the movies that came afterwords.
I've not read Brubaker's series Friday, which combines Lovecraftian horror with the "kid detective" genre. The kids have grown up though, and...
Many issues have what amounts to villains on the cover, but the collected Friday has only hints.
The concept and conceit of All Star Squadron was really an eye-opener. Save for flashbacks and the 70s WWII run in Wonder Woman, no one thought to write about the Justice Society at the start of their careers in the early 40s or include all the DC and AA heroes plus the Quality ones!
Just the sight of Hawkman meeting Plastic Man or Robotman working with the Atom and Doctor Mid-Nite was mind-blowing!
You can have heroes in peril without super villains involved. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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