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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I thought I'd digress today with some Little Audrey #29s
And Harvey certainly wouldn't let a good gag go to waste
And speaking of Harvey, on issue #29, Huey's idiocy is merely idiotic, as opposed to life-threatening:
The Wasp seemed always to be the ingenue, the damsel in distress, until she became leader of the Avengers.
Teen Titans #29---battling the Ocean Master with Aqualad!
And another cover that equates the Dove's pacifism with cowardice.This was the last new appearance of Hawk & Dove until TT #50.
Sorry I couldn't be here yesterday, so it's double feature time as I present two examples of Sal Buscema's inking. First on his brother John's pencils, and a rare occurance of inking Marie Severin. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Detective #29 and Star-Spangled #29
Amazing Spider-Man #129 --the first appearance of THE PUNISHER, a character that I can handle in small doses and the true start to the Clone Saga!
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