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Black and White Wednesday: Can't Get Enough John Buscema Conan
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Here are a few pages of gorgeous-o John Buscema art for ya! Naturally, the pages feature Big John doing what he did best--drawing Conan! From The Art of John Buscema Vol....
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Valentine's Day! "--In Love and War!" by Drake, Saaf, and Colletta
Happy Valentine's Day, Groove-ophiles! To celebrate the day, we're gonna take a look at one'a those "mushy" Supergirl stories from the 70s. You know, the kind that has her kissing a guy on the...
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Grooviest Covers of All Time: Dave Cockrum's Marvelous Meetings
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! As ya know, Marvel had some mighty fine team-up mags (Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two-In-One, and Super-Villain Team-Up, natch), but that never satisfied fandom's team-up...
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The Boys from Derby: "Death in the Desert" by Gill and Sattler
Hi-YA, Groove-ophiles! Let's head out to the old west and dig on Charlton Comics' answer to TV's Kung Fu--Yang! I really dig the collision of kung fu action and cowboys, and the Golden Age vibe Joe...
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Random Reads: "Night Moves!" by Warner, Kraft, Slifer, Giffen, and Janson
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! One of the things I loved most about the Groovy Age of Comics was the freewheeling fun that flowed from the four colored pages of my fave mags. Take Defenders #47 (February...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Space: $19.99" by Herman and Colon
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Between Star Trek and Star Wars the boob tube provided us with the quality sci-fi of Space: 1999 (check out the links in the sidebar for tons-o-links to Charlton Comics'...
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Groovy Age Gold: "Beware of Mr. Meek!" by Simon and Kirby
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Today we're checking out the magnificence that was Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Golden Age Manhunter. "Beware of Mr. Meek" comes from the back pages of the legendary sixth...
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Making a Splash: DC Comics 40 Years Ago this Month
Let's do the time-warp and head for the Sensational Seventies Spinner Rack to see what kinds of delights DC dished out waaaaaay back in February, 1973... G.I. Combat #160Lois Land #130Our Army at War...
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Marvel M-Ad-ness: Letters Page Teaser Ads
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Remember those little teaser ads Marvel occasionally ran at the bottom of their letters pages back in the early-to-mid 70s? I really dug the way they used the cover art...
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Odds N Ends: World's Finest Table of Contents Part 1
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Yet another new feature makes it's dazzling debut this dynamite day: Odds N Ends. Odds N Ends will feature those off the wall, hard to categorize things yers trooly thinks...
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Black and White Wednesday: 1973 FOOM Character Contest
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Jaunty Jim Steranko mentioned it in his editorial in FOOM Magazine #1, but it wasn't until getting the second ish that Young Groove realized that Marvel was really serious...
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The Forgotten Batmen: Six Who Left Us Begging for More
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Ask most folks who the definitive Groovy Age Batman artist is and you'll probably get Neal Adams or Jim Aparo. Maybe Irv Novick or Marshall Rogers (my fave!) or Michael...
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The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Barry (Windsor-) Smith Beyond Conan
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Before, during, and after Barry (Windsor-) Smith was setting the comicbook world on fire on Marvel's Conan the Barbarian, he was occasionally turned loose on a non-Conan...
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Bring on the Back-ups: "The Invasion!" by Wolfman and Don Heck
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! This sci-fi mini-epic from Adventure Comics #424 (September 1972) was written, according to Grand Comics Database, by Marv Wolfman. "The Invasion!" was drawn, without a...
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Secret Origins: "The Origin of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agent--Dynamo" by Chic Stone
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Believe it or not, Li'l Groove's first T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents comic was the final ish! Yeah, I found T.A. #20 on the ol' spinner rack in late 1969, and it became first...
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Groove's Faves: Our Fabulous 1500th Post featuring Kirby's Space Odyssey
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! We're celebrating post number one thousand five hundred here in Groove City, and boy, does Ol' Groove hope you like it! Our 500th post (featuring DAK and Perez's Beatles'...
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Shades of Gray: "A Girl and her Dog" by Conway and Morrow
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna dig on a classic chiller by the talented duo of Gerry Conway and Gray Morrow. It's called "A Girl and Her Dog" and was originally published in House of...
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Making a Splash: Joe Staton Showcase
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Didja know that when DC revived Showcase in 1977 (May 1977-June 1978) the venerable title lasted only 11 issues before going under in the DC Implosion? Didja know that, for...
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Groove's Faves: "Stampede!" by Fite, Starlin, Weiss, and McLaughlin
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Here's another one of those comics in which the art saves a kinda silly story from being a total flop. Not that Linda Fite was a bad writer, it's just the whole idea of...
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The Boys from Derby: "Swamp!" by Steve Morisi and PAM
Here's a creepy-cool shocker from Steve and Pete Morisi from The Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves #46 (April 1974). Dare you enter..."The Swamp!"
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