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If You Blinked You Missed: Young Tarzan in Pizzazz
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Back during the Groovy Age, companies like Scholastic, Xerox, and Marvel produced magazines with names like Dynamite, Bananas, Smash, and Pizzazz. These periodicals were...
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Black and White Wednesday: "The Hyborian Age Chapter 1: The Pre-Cataclysmic...
During the Groovy Age, Roy Thomas made sure that comicdom got the best of Robert E. Howard and his creations. With color comics like Conan the Barbarian, Kull the Conqueror/Destroyer, and Red Sonja, we...
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Random Reads: "Smoke, Beads, and Blood!" by Moench, Zeck, and Day
Many times has Ol' Groove waxed eloquent semi-literate about the greatness of Marvel's Master of Kung Fu. I've heaped much praise upon Doug Moench for his masterful writing--and rightly so. His stories...
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Making a Splash: Jim Aparo's Aquaman, Round 1
What's happening, Groove-ophiles! Today's tasty treat is a pile of perfect splash pages from the hand of Aquaman's main man, Jim Aparo! Today we're planting our peepers on Aquaman #'s 40-56 (March...
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The Boys from Derby: "The Beasts of Madame Kahn" by Cuti and Newton
Sometimes a comic is so good it doesn't even need much of an intro. In fact, sometimes you can just kick things off with a question and let it truck right on. To wit... How 'bout a classic Phantom...
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Sunday Funnies: Wally Wood's PLOPular Poetry
Here's a treasure-trove of forgotten treats for ya, Groove-ophiles! From issues 18-24 (August 1975-August 1976) of DC's "Magazine of Weird Humor" PLOP!, Wally Wood produced a humorous hum-dinger of a...
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Grooviest Covers of All Time: Classics from Our Pal Sal
What it is, Groove-ophiles! During the early '70s, Our Pal Sal Buscema drew many a cover for Marvel Comics. Before long, he became so busy (drawing 3 or 4 titles a month sometimes) that his cover-work...
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Mining for Gold(en)/Tuesday Team-Up: Micronauts and Man-Thing by Mantlo,...
Hoo-hah, Groove-ophiles! Sometimes a comicbook comes along that just punches every "cool" button on the panel, and Micronauts #7 (April 1979) is one of 'em. First off, the premise: sci-fi meets horror...
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Black and White Wednesday: "The Last" by McKenzie and Severin
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Here's a short but sweet post sure to shock your senses! Take a very cool and touching tale from the criminally underrated Roger McKenzie, add the unequaled art of John...
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Ol' Groove's Request Line: "Travis in the Dragon Killer!" by Cuti and Howard
From the Request Line, here's Nick Cuti and Wayne Howard's Travis back-up feature from E-Man #3 (March 1974)! Enjoy "The Dragon Killer!", Groove-ophiles!
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Ol' Groove's Request Line: Man-Bat by Pasko, Marcos, and Villamonte
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Time once more to dip into the Groove-E-Mail Bag for another righteous request. This one comes from long-time Groove-ophile Joplin John's response to our Famous First Friday...
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Ol' Groove's Request Line: Star Wars with Pizzazz by Thomas, Chaykin, and...
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! By popular demand, here are the first two chapters of Roy Thomas, Howard Chaykin, and Tony DeZuniga's Star Wars strip from the first two issues of Marvel's tween/teen mag...
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Sports Sunday: A Groovy Guest Post by Mike Mikulovsky! 1970 Browns and...
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Here's a special guest-post by Mighty Mike Mikulovsky featuring a fab find he's dug up to share with all of us here in Groove City! Thanks, Mike! Enjoy, Groove-ophiles! Are...
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Groove's Faves: "The Dead Don't Cry" by Oleck, Rogers, and Layton
What's up, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove was always a fan of penciler Marshall Rogers and inker Bob Layton--two great talents who rarely worked together. I know they had at least one artistic...
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Making a Splash: Marvel Comics 40 Years Ago
Forty Years ago this month, Marvel unleashed the following mellow mayhem and magnificent madness 'pon the comicbook-reading world...and we were thankful for it! The names on in the credit boxes read...
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Black and White Wednesday: "The Feastings of Prince Yamm" by Fox, Englehart,...
Everyone in Groove City knows that Stainless Steve Englehart was one of the most original and unique voices of the Groovy Age. His writing on Captain America, Avengers, and Batman is considered one of...
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Random Reads: "Wizard of Forgotten Flesh" by Moench and Heath
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Been thinking about one of the great comicbook artists of any age, Russ Heath. Russ (age 84) recently underwent much-needed knee-replacement surgery so you might've heard his...
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Famous First Fridays: "Iron" Mike Grell's DC Debuts
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Y'know, the very first post on DotGk dealt with "Iron" Mike Grell. Tons (I say, TONS) of my posts have been devoted to this masterful writer/artist--the creator of Warlord,...
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The Boys from Derby: "Survival" by Cuti and Staton
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Today would be a good day for a cool sci-fi tale, wouldn't ya say? Here's a goodie by my main Boys from Derby Nick Cuti and Joe Staton (who'll soon be taking over the art...
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The Boys from Derby: Super Bowl Special! 1969 Super Bowl in Comics Form by...
It's Super Bowl Sunday, Groove-ophiles! Bet you're wonderin', "What's that got to do with comicbooks?" Well, back in the winter of 1969/1970, Charlton Comics produced the first (and only) issue of...
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