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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This specific cover is just a montage - but most of the sub-covers don't have villains either.
I missed this one when it first came out. I knew who Doll Man was, thanks to reprints. But I didn't see the rest until Freedom Fighters #2!
I still wonder how they survived fighting the Nazis for over thirty years!
Superboy #154.
All hail the might Glow Cloud!
Before this month's theme ends I just wanted to share what, to its point of release, was the most powerful comic book I had ever read. Heroes having bad luck throughout their career was an already established comic book trope and I discovered comics after the deaths of Gwen Stacy and Ferro Lad, so to see someone sacrafice themselves for the greater good...
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Okay it's after midnight my time and officially April 30, so before I go to bed for the night, here's my transition cover between No Villians April and Sal Buscema Memorial May. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
According to Roy Thomas' autobiography this is the first cover that the name Marvel comics group first appears in the silver age.
Challengers #28
April is ending. May and Free Comic Book Day are just around the corner.
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