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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Superboy #151. Neal Adams cover. No supervillains - I absolutely love this cover (and the comic).
Almost didn't make it today, but here's someone who has a better track record when it comes to punctuality, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Another great Romita snr cover.
Brave and Bold #28 and Justice League #28
A lot of the Golden Age Superman covers lack a villain. The Man of Steel was enough to sell comics.
A rare joyful Batman cover!
Strange that it took Supergirl so long to co-star with Batman in Brave and the Bold. He was one of the first people who even knew she existed at the beginning, along with Robin!
Speaking of the ladies... (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Love that cover, Lee. As I do this one - drawn by Adams, and inked by Wood.
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