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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Okay, it's after midnight Eastern time, so here's my Sunday Sal cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Tales of Suspense #29 (Kirby & Ditko) and Tales to Astonish #29 (Kirby & Ayers)
I don't know why, but for some reason the middle third of the Astonish cover (between the bottom of the logo to the top of the blurb) keeps reminding me of some of Jack Kirby's Kamandi work.
Battlefront #29---cover by Russ Heath!
Plastic Man #29 and Police #29
I was going through some boxes and found a copy of Capt. Storm #1 (1964) and I had forgotten that I had it. I must have bought it at a convention but have no memory of it. I rarely got the war books but this was a key issue.
This book was also the answer to one of either Mr. Silver Age or Captain Comics' trivia contests but I can't remember the question either.
For those celebrating today, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY. Here's an appropriate Sal Buscema cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Sea Devils #29 and Challengers #29
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