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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Another multitude of heroes coming right at you, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
I remember Li'l Me being disappointed in this cover. Spidey had had a great run of covers, mostly by John Romita Sr., and then this one came long. Not only is it kinda dull, but it's deceitful -- the scene depicted was just a few panels, and was written off by those in attendance because Peter had the flu and was raving with fever. Captain Stacy had his suspicions, of course, but he had those already. So it was basically a throwaway bit, with zero repercussions, that they blew up out of proportion for the cover. I still remember the disappointment, all these years later.
Fantastic Four #28 and Daredevil #28
There's mention elsewhere of the problem created by so many rebooted numbering. It gets complicated by rebooted characters:
Happy birthday to an actual Linda Lee I know!
Another Phantom cover
Duplicates of the Wonder Woman family should be good enough.
Sweet Christmas! Luke Cage and Doctor Strange in the same book!
Running late again but here's my cover for today, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Two more Unknown Worlds, one from Atlas and one from ACG, both numbered 28
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