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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That's a definitive Captain America pose, wouldn't you say? TOMORROW: My transition cover!
Reprint of Sal's first Avengers cover!
I think Captain America and the Falcon may be the second longest partnership after Batman and Robin. Here's another Sal Buscema cover, inked by John Verpoorten, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Pep #29 and World's Finest #29
A Sal Buscema cover with a variety of super villains. Welcome to June!
Plantman, Porcupine and the Eel. Always enjoyed those guys.
Spidey with THE OUTLAWS, all former super villains!
A transition to June
Can't believe we've already reached the end of May and our Sal Buscema tribute month. In any event, to transition over to Multiple Villains in June, here's one last cover by "Our Pal Sal", courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. The man and his art will be missed, but we still have the memories.
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