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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Classics Illustrated #33. I know the cover image says "37" but it initially was 33. A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes story. When it has been adapted other than by Classics Illustrated, the negative portrayal of the Mormon church in the story has been omitted. The infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre probably inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's negative portrayal. Mountain Meadows Massacre - Wikipedia
Bikers! Though I hope your last spin of the summer is not as rough as this cover implies.
I don't think riding a motorbike side-saddle is a good idea.
I almost said that, but then I gave them the benefit of the doubt, and thought, maybe she's still getting on, especially as her ex can clearly hear her.
Some hippies on this Neal Adams cover!
While Tower Comics was a grand experiment before my reading time started mostly known for the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, they did explore the Teen Scene of the Swingin' 60s too. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Every time I see Tippy Teen, I wish I had read it.
Robert Crumb certainly knew how to capture the whole hippie culture feel...
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