A Cover a Day

[Steve W]

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.

 

 

[JD DeLuzio]

I have and have seen a fair bit of Crumb, but I don't think that I knew this one before.

[Lee Houston, Junior]

I unfortunately was a subscriber of the other newspaper in town when this strip started in the rival publication, but I wished it well. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)

[Richard Willis]

Star Spangled #32 and World's Finest #32

[Dave Palmer]

Here are a couple that should act as a transition

[MethodEng]

[JD DeLuzio]

Here are a couple of transitions: one based on numbers and the other on hippies:

[Eric L. Sofer]

Here's my transition cover. Expect a lot of Rick Jones; I think he fits in the Beatnik category.

[JD DeLuzio]

I see Rick Jones and Snapper Carr as more the general hipster type, but definitions are soft, the beatnik influence is clear enough, and anyway, "hipsters" definitely fit in next month's category. I look forward to your Rick-rollin' posts. 

[Dave Palmer]

I think Rick definitely fits

[Peter Wrexham]

Transition cover....