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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You certainly don't want to get on his bad side. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Silver Surfer #4. Artist John Buscema. No supervillains; just a great cover. Although wildly implausible, Thor has swung his hammer back about three seconds too late if he hopes to connect with the surfer.
I've just started reading Roy Thomas's autobiography, available from Twomorrows,. It reminded me if his lifelong love of golden age characters and this cover.
No supervillains, but judging from the viewpoint of the reader we're the bad guys.
Spirit #28
Some super teams from the 1980s
Another cover where, judging from the viewpoint, we're the bad guys.
Scorecard! Get your scorecard here! Can't tell your obscure superheroes apart without a scorecard!
There are plenty of multiple hero covers, but what about the ladies? (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Barry (not yet Windsor)Smith leaving behind his early heavily Kirby influenced art and finding his own excellent style.
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