A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

 

[Lee Houston, Junior]

Kids can be a problem at times JD. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Steve W]

Wolverine #2. October 1982. Art by Frank Miller.

[Dave Palmer]

Some Dell superheroes from the 1960s

[Dave Palmer]

I could have included Nukla since this cover seems villain-free

but I had to skip Werewolf since the covers included bad guys.  Although they had done movie adaptation in the early 1960s, Dell never did a Mummy or Creature superhero, ah, those were the days.

[MethodEng]

[Richard Willis]

Black Cat #28

[JD DeLuzio]

Hulk feels the weight of his name. Good story in this one, even if the Great Refuge appears to have been relocated to the Alps.

[Eric L. Sofer]

I'm back. Miss me? Here's a lot of heroes to make up for it.

 

[Philip Portelli]

"Hey, we're doing you kids a favor, letting you appear in our book!"

"We thought we were helping out you second stringers! Just you wait ten years!"

[Steve W]

Hawk and The Dove #5. Artwork by Gil Kane. Masterful drawing, and an absence of supervillains.