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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Two more Flash foes, Mirror Master and the Top.
More Superman villains united!
There's Brainiac, Grax and the Marauder!
And the deformed thug at the bottom is supposed to be Luthor who must be contemplating legal action!
This month's theme has me strolling down memory lane and rereading this series on my Kindle via DC's two volume collection. Below is the cover for the next issue when I get back to it, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Have we overlooked this cover so far, or did I miss it when it was posted?
It's technically the cover of a book about comic books, but it features fascist villains and patriotic American symbols, so we have a cover that transitions:
Astro City #30 and Captain Marvel #30
Oops, I mistakenly posted these to a different thread. Let's try again.
And here's my transitional cover for June/July!
My transition cover from June's Villains to July's Patriotism features two of the biggest villains of World War 2 trying to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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