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 is my transition cover between April and May. Boy, doesn't Sal Buscema draw the Marvel Universe pretty?
The proto Invaders versus the Avengers' B-Team!
Here's my transition cover: no supervillains and drawn by the wonderful Sal Buscema.
Avengers Annual #4 was 100% reprints, except for Sal Buscema's cover, which he inked himself. Being reprints explains how the evil Black Knight is on a cover after kissing the Earth in Tales of Suspense #73 (a favorite cover of mine, below) five years earlier.
When his nephew became the heroic Black Knight, they didn't explain how he came up with a second flying horse of a different color.
When his nephew became the heroic Black Knight, they didn't explain how he came up with a second flying horse of a different color.
"I even managed to create a second mutany winged stallion -- much swifter and more powerful than that used by the villainous Black Knight." - Dane Whitman, Avengers #48
NOTE: The "bat-wings" of of the Black Knight's second flying steed, Valinor, were created by magic that eventually "went bad" and were removed by Doctor Strange in Doctor Strange #68.
I'm busy with some projects so I'll likely only be posting sporadically at this month's "Cover" thread. But I'll post a 29 for today:
I had this lined up for last months no villains cover, but it'll fit well here.
This is the first example I can find of Sal Buscema's excellent inking. Inking Larry Lieber's pencils for the story "When Stalks the Cougar" in Rawhide Kid #68 (Feb. 1969).
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