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.

[Philip Portelli]

I first read this in Super Team Family #4 and I always liked the Moon-Man's powers and design. He even appeared in a Batman cartoon in the 70s though he looked very different!

[JD DeLuzio]

I may not have posted the first cover this month, but I can post the First Men in the Moon:

[Steve W]

Happy 1st June everyone! New month, new subject. This is my favourite 'moon' cover and occurred to me as soon as someone suggested this month's theme. A wonderful Neil Adams cover.  Seems a strange place to exile yourself to - but that's another month surely...

[Jeff of Earth-J]

[Steve W]

Never mind Doomsday on the Moon.  What about a spider on the moon?

 

[JD DeLuzio]

Well, making all of the weather on earth disappear is pretty serious stuff.

(and don't call me, "Shirley.")

Steve W said:

Happy 1st June everyone! New month, new subject. This is my favourite 'moon' cover and occurred to me as soon as someone suggested this month's theme. A wonderful Neil Adams cover.  Seems a strange place to exile yourself to - but that's another month surely...

[Steve W]

Ah, Airplane. Definitely one of my favourite movies of all time.  Apparently the Shirley line came from a 1957 movie called "Zero Hour".

Anyway, enough of that.  Everybody note - the 5th of June is a full moon (apparently this one is called a strawberry moon) so I think we need to post extra covers on Friday, to celebrate. 

Here's my next cover. Apparently Superboys breed on the moon. Who knew?

[Peter Wrexham]

I think this is a record - six covers have been posted so far this month, and every one of them was a cover that I had lined up for possible use!  (Well, to be strictly accurate, I had the "Six Superboys on the Moon" cover from its original appearance on Adventure Comics #140, dated May 1949.)

I've also been having some problems viewing the website, and uploading covers.  They seem to have cleared up now, so here's another one from my diminishing stash.  Fortunately, I still have quite a few in reserve, and am unlikely to run out any time soon.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

[Richard Willis]

EC's famous title-changing comic. Issue 1 was Moon Girl and the Prince, issues 2-6 were Moon Girl, Issues 7 and 8 were Moon Girl Fights Crime and issues 9-12 were A Moon, a Girl ... Romance. Number 9 actually had the last Moon Girl story buried therein, according to GCD.

[Peter Wrexham]

Here's an updated version of the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes, including the subjects that I think have been agreed for future months.

Date	Page/Reply	Theme (and clickable link)	Pages	Replies
Oct 2016	1/1	Letter A	19	228
Dec 2016	20/1	Letter B	17	207
Jan 2017	37/4	Letter C	18	214
Feb 2017	55/2	Letter D	17	208
Mar 2017	72/6	Letter E	15	178
Apr 2017	87/4	Letter F	15	184
May 2017	102/8	Letter G	13	157
Jun 2017	115/9	Letter H	16	195
Jul 2017	131/12	Letter I	12	133
Aug 2017	143/1	Letter J	16	194
Sep 2017	159/3	Letter K	19	237
Oct 2017	178/12	Letter L	24	285
Nov 2017	202/9	Letter M	24	280
Dec 2017	226/1	Letter N	19	236
Jan 2018	245/9	Letter O	21	245
Feb 2018	266/7	Letter P	25	295
Mar 2018	291/2	Letters Q & R	20	243
Apr 2018	311/5	Letter S	22	270
May 2018	333/11	Superman’s 80th anniversary	21	250
Jun 2018	354/9	Letter T	21	250
Jul 2018	375/7	Letter U	17	207
Aug 2018	392/10	Letter V	19	228
Sep 2018	411/10	Letter W	20	233
Oct 2018	431/3	Letter X	15	180
Nov 2018	446/3	Letter Y	13	156
Dec 2018	459/3	Letter Z	13	156
Jan 2019	472/3	Person being carried	16	190
Feb 2019	488/1	Real people	17	214
Mar 2019	505/11	Homages/parodies	19	224
Apr 2019	524/7	Green-skinned people	17	207
May 2019	541/10	Wanted posters	17	201
Jun 2019	558/7	Boxing rings	15	180
Jul 2019	573/7	Empty uniforms	15	177
Aug 2019	588/4	Beaches	25	297
Sep 2019	613/1	Apes	28	340
Oct 2019	641/5	Haunted houses/graves	21	250
Nov 2019	662/3	Motor bikes	21	254
Dec 2019	683/5	Foreign language covers	17	209
Jan 2020	700/10	Playing cards/tabletop games	23	275
Feb 2020	723/9	Valentines and Cupids	22	259
Mar 2020	745/4	Statues	21	256
Apr 2020	766/8	Elephants	22	263
May 2020	788/7	Heroes & villains cooperating	17	198
Jun 2020	805/1	The Moon
Jul 2020		Flags & other patriotic symbols
Aug 2020		Foreign locations (non-US)
Sep 2020		MST3K (with commentary)
Oct 2020		Vampires and Werewolves
Nov 2020		Giants

Please say if you think I've mis-stated any of the coming themes, or if you'd like to suggest a change.

[Dave Palmer]

I also had problems loading covers the past few days.  Here is “yesterday’s” cover which would have spanned May and June, but still works perfectly well today, although the moon is not a major element.