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.

[Richard Willis]

You're right. According to dc.fandom.com/wiki/Superboy_Vol_1_61:

Synopsis for "The School for Superboys"

"Clark Kent and other Smallville boys sign up for a class, supposedly taught by Superboy, who claims he can transfer his powers to them."

[Jeff of Earth-J]

[JD DeLuzio]

My final Supergirl meets Supergirl covers.

The first is from the Superman Gen 13 (2000), one of my favorite intercompany crossovers. Fairchild has amnesia, and thinks she's Supergirl, but affected by red kryptonite. Hilarity ensues, and Supergirl enters the story to save her reputation. The characters would later be folded into DC continuity proper.

There can only be one.... Uh, not in DC continuity:

[Jeff of Earth-J]

These aren't really "dopplegangers" since the other suits of armor are empty and being remotely controlled...

...but what about these?

[Dave Palmer]

[Philip Portelli]

"Geez, now I realize that my fur thong does make others uncomfortable! What was I thinking???"

Dave Palmer said:

[Philip Portelli]

"Great, now we have to listen to TWO of him!"

[Richard Willis]

[Jeff of Earth-J]

"Three of a kind" with "alter egos" (after a fashion).

[Peter Wrexham]

Let's have a change from all the super-hero covers we've been seeing.  Sometimes it's a western hero instead who meets their doppelgänger.

A cover that could have appeared in May 2019 (theme: "Wanted Posters").

A cover that could have appeared in January 2020 (theme: "Playing Cards").

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Western hero? Gotcha covered. (See also Outlaw Kid #2 I posted early on.)

[Steve W]

Ok, so this isn't really a 'doppelganger' cover - one of these characters isn't actually Supes, but I love the cover and only really needed a tiny excuse to post it. Curt at his best...