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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And, while I'm here, I'd just like to show off a new book that I bought last week. It arrived this evening. It's a a beautiful book with some fascinating and breathtaking artwork inside. The cover itself is iconic - The Beatles Abbey Road album cover forms the background whilst in the foreground, the figures of John, Paul, George and Ringo are replaced by Dan Dare, Rupert, Judge Dredd, and Tank Girl. A fabulous book - I heartily recommend it.
Rupert the Bear was probably the first comic (in hardcover) that I read, even before Donald Duck and company.
I really like the last image you posted Steve W (who's the artist?), although I can't top any of them. Instead, here's a notable gathering of heroes with no villains, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Norman Lee (1927-2012), a longtime artist for DC Thomson, contributed to numerous publications, including Romeo, Jackie, Red Star, My Weekly, Judy and People's Friend. He drew for People's Friend covers, often creating "half-up" penciled artwork. He was the artist for stories in Jinty, such as "When the Mummy Walks..." and "I Don't Want to be a Witch". This was his cover for Spellbound No 8, November 1976. Not to be confused with an American cartoonist with the same name.
Tomahawk #28
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