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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HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!
For the Bicentennial, the Big Two released celebratory tabloids. DC's reused the cover below left for Superman Salutes The Bicentennial, which was mostly reprints of more serious Tomahawk stories without the Silver Age tropes. Meanwhile, Jack Kirby produced an all new special: Captain America's Bicentennial Battles for Marvel with a slew of inkers over his pencils. (Information and images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Happy Birthday USA! Congrats on making it to 250 years of independence. You're always welcome if you want to return to the fold.
Sadly for me, I remember the 200th anniversary celebrations all too well. I was 17 and working for a large multi-national insurance company who had a number of high profile American clients. Our walls were covered with Stars and Stripes banners and pictures of the Statue of Liberty.
Encore la même chose. Happy anniversary. Who's more symbolic of the US than the Captain!
New Adventure Comics #31. Beginning with the next issue, issue 32, they drop the "New" from the title and begin an unbroken run of 45 years.
The soldier in the foreground looks an awful lot like Lloyd Bridges.
"By this time, my lungs were aching for air!"
I was going to say why does the soldier directly behind the American flag remind me of Ken Berry from F-Troop?
I certainly wasn't going to do so yesterday, but on weekends I try to have a little fun with the monthly theme whenever possible. So here's a reenactment of a historic event during the American Revolution, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
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