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.

[Dave Palmer]

[Peter Wrexham]

Here's another "in a lighter vein" posting.  Regrettably, it's not actually a cover.  Instead, I offer a page from inside this very week's Beano #4058, which has a cover date of 24-Oct-20.

[Richard Willis]

[JD DeLuzio]

Dave Palmer said:

I interpret that as a loop of something as opposed to a tongue.  I guess  it could go either way.

Richard Willis said:

What I noticed was a tongue somehow in the neck and also in the severed head.

Dave Palmer said:

Looking closely at this cover:  why are there intestines coming out of the corpse’s neck?

Never mind the anthropomancy! Here's the Crime Smashers!

[Peter Wrexham]

JD DeLuzio said:

Never mind the anthropomancy! Here's the Crime Smashers!

I'm pleased to see that the "punk" is being responsible, and wearing a face-covering!

[JD DeLuzio]

Danielle : No Janet, Tampa was two years ago. I remember because you puked doing a guy in his pickup truck.

Janet : I ate some bad Mexican, and it was a jeep.

--Trick 'r Treat

[Dave Palmer]

[Richard Willis]

The more I look at this cover, I can't decide if these are two separate characters or two characters sharing the same lower body. I think the artist was going for two separate bodies, but it isn't clear enough.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Does fleeing from a vampire and seeing it over your shoulder count?

[JD DeLuzio]

Jeff of Earth-J said:

Does fleeing from a vampire and seeing it over your shoulder count?

Because YOU are the VAMPIRE!

[Philip Portelli]

Have we had any entries from the Buffy-verse?

[Peter Wrexham]

Philip Portelli said:

Have we had any entries from the Buffy-verse?

On 13th October (page 902), Jeff posted a cover of Angel vs Frankenstein, and I responded with Buffy and Dracula.

Here's another sort-of Buffy cover.  I wonder if Wolff & Byrd ever had dealings with Wolfram & Hart?

And here's a distinctly different sort of vampire slayer.