In this month ... The 31 covers of August — GREAT NEWS FOR ALL READERS!

Aug 1

Aug 1 In this month ... The 31 covers of August

In this month … I’ve decided to ease back a bit on the blog for the rest of the summer – partly because I want a bit of space to think creatively about it and plan for future posts, and partly because it’s the holidays and I want to chill. But it seems a shame to interrupt the ‘On This Day’ posts which I’ve managed to keep going for most of the year so far, so my plan is this:

For the month of August, I’m going to post a front cover each day on Twitter, Facebook and here on the blog. There won’t be an accompanying write-up or scans from the inside pages. No title will be repeated so there will be 31 different comics featured at the end of it, giving a great overview of the whole IPC range in the 1970s and 1980s. I’ll keep adding the covers to this blog post so that it ends up covering the whole month. Please do add any memories or other comments as the month goes by. If enough people seem interested maybe we can run a vote on the favourite August cover at the end.

I may do one or two longer posts in the meantime (there’s one in particular I already have in mind), but that will be separate from this one and won’t interfere with the daily August updates.

Apologies to those following ‘On This Day’ in more detail, and I hope you understand and don’t give up on me. If it helps add a bit of authenticity, think of this as the equivalent of one of the industrial action periods (ee, them terrible strikes of '74, '80 and '84) that saw our comics disappear for several weeks at a time. I promise not to do a Scream! and will return better and stronger. Either that or I’ll merge into one of the better blogs out there written by people far more knowledgeable than me (Blimey!, downthetubes, A Resource on Jinty, Peter Gray’s Comics, Cheeky Weekly, Kazoop!!, Bear Alley or any one of many more – may they satisfy all your comic blogging needs this summer!).

I’d just like to take this opportunity to say thank you for all the corrections to the credits that various of you have provided over the last months (especially Andy Boal, on whom I’ve become reliant on putting me right; I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to tell the difference between Reg Parlett and Arthur Martin, nor Mike Lacey and Jimmy Hansen, nor quite a few others, it seems – to my shame!). I don’t mind being corrected at all – in fact it’s crucial that I am – so please don’t hold back if you spot a mistake.

And finally, thank you to everyone who has followed, subscribed, commented, liked, shared, favourited and (best of all) RETWEETED me. I love to be loved – hey, I love to be just noticed – so every single one of them is really, really appreciated. Happy holidays, pals!