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.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Mayweather vs. McGregor...?

[Dave Palmer]

Johnny Mack Brown #2 (1950)

[Jeff of Earth-J]

When I was a kid and read Hulk #140 for the first time, for some reason I placed the accent on the first syllable of Jarella’s name. That’s the way I have pronounced it ever since, until just a couple of months ago when I was speaking to Bob on the phone, the character’s name came up, he placed the accent on the second syllable and I immediately realized I had been pronouncing it incorrectly all these years.

[Philip Portelli]

Jemm, Son of Saturn #1 (S'84) was a maxi-series that began right before the Crisis. Jemm was originally supposed to be from Mars but then he went from green to red! He wasn't a very interesting character and vanished for fifteen years!

Plus he wasn't truly, truly, truly outrageous!

[Richard Willis]

[Philip Portelli]

That's a lot more of Jimmy than we needed to see!

[Steve W]

Yes, he was a particularly hairless guy wasn't he! Perhaps he used to shave his body hair, worrying that it would all grow red.

[Steve W]

Jungle Fantasy Ivory #7, December 2016. Publisher Boundless.  Cover art by Emiliano Urdinola.

 

 

[Jeff of Earth-J]

When Thor was relegagted to the "Heroes Reborn" universe, his series reverted to Journey into Mystery for the duration. When the charater returned it was with a "new number one," but when that series reverted to "legacy" numbering, issues #503-521 were not counted (although issues #1-125 were).

[Steve W]

In the grand tradition of comic book reboots like Archie #1, Archie Comics proudly presents Jughead #1 from the comics dream team of Chip Zdarsky (Howard the Duck) and Erica Henderson (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl)! Riverdale High provides a quality education and quality hot lunches, but when one of those is tampered with, Jughead Jones swears vengeance! Well, he doesn't actually "swear." This is still Archie Comics after all.

[Philip Portelli]

Justice League of America #114 featured the return of Snapper Carr in a very strange adventure, retold the second JLA/JSA team-up and a hidden gem with "Just A Story!"

[Steve W]

Another Kirby cover from me to finish off the month. Here's Justice Inc #2, August 1975.