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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Traveling to recognizable places from the hippie counterculture is clearly this hitchhiker's bag, though he's crossed over with a different in-group on this particular day.
Also, it's Labour Day! This one is a novel and doesn't fit the theme, but still, working-class superheroes vs Roman Gods? Interesting concept.
Kookie #1 and #2. The first cover baffled me at first, but they are checking out a "hot chick" walking outside.
A definite hippy vibe on this cover.
I haven't read the story but I wonder, if the JLA are under some kind of mind control, why the ropes. And surely it's pointless to tie up the Atom. But raising that kind of question is what a good cover does.
The blank, eyeless stare is undercut by the fact that, historically, that's what happens to your eyes anyway when you put on a mask in a comic book.
That cover is so odd -- drawn by Murphy Anderson, with this weird Neal Adams image of a guitar-playing troubadour that looks like it was cut and pasted from several other pictures. The physical proportions of the guitar player are WAY off, especially the head.
Johnny and Ben get hip in their Beatle wigs.
I'm pretty sure that this is the issue that prompted me to write a complaint to the lettercol about the qualiy of the Torch/Thing stories. It turned out to be my only printed letter (in #134).
Marvel Team Up #33---Whatever thrill there was to see NIGHTHAWK as the co-star was dulled by his small role on the cover!
It's a cave-beatnik!
Great hippie cover featured on Bijou Funnies #2. Various sources claim this is a Robert Crumb drawing, but it doesn't look like his style to me.
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