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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Sal Buscema was also a noted inker. Here's his lone Conan cover inking Barry Windsor Smith. But much later Sal got to draw the cover, inked by Ernie Chan. (Images and data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Here is the original art. I've always found John Romita Sr.'s redrawing of the woman's face jarring.
The first cover to be drawn by Sal Buscema (and credited to him). X-Men #48
Sal Buscema was the regular artist of ROM for years but didn't get the cover until #36!
Usually, editor Al Milgrom drew the covers along with Michael Golden, Ed Hannigan and even Frank Miller!
Another reprint book (FF51) with an excellent cover from Sal. He seemed to be the go to guy for these reprint books.
As a teen I would always be slightly disappointed to pick up a book with a Kirby or John Buscema cover to find Don Heck or Sal Buscema art inside. Not that I thought the art was bad just not Kirby, but who is. Of course I was wrong, later in life I came to appreciate the great art of Don and Sal and others.
So these reprint covers are a welcome reversal of that trend.
Iron Man #31, Sal Buscema inking himself.
I can't tell you much about Arc Twenty-Nine, other than the comic exists, but it is this month's number, so:
Another reprint cover by Stupendous Sal!
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