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Five Years Old and Still Truckin' Through the Groovy Age! PLUS: A Peek at The...
It's really been half a decade (as of yesterday) since Ol' Groove decided to start up a comicbook blog! I didn't really know what I was doing (as you can tell from the first few posts!), just breaking...
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Random Reads: "Death Is My Dominion!" by Dorfman, Brown, and Anderson
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Ya know, Superboy didn't spend the Groovy Age truckin' it to the future to hang out with the Legion of Super-Heroesall the time. Sometimes he just hung around Smallville...
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Black and White Wednesday: The Question by Stern, Uslan, and Toth
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna plant our peepers on a rare treat--Alex Toth illustrating Steve Ditko's The Question from Charlton Bullseye #5 (Summer 1976). The untitled story, plotted...
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Groove's Faves: "Summer Fun--and Summer Not" by Doyle, Lucey, and Epp
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! You guys seemed to have really dug our last Archie I post, so Ol' Groove decided to share another fave with ya, this one from Archie #220 (cover-dated August 1972). Again by...
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Making a Splash: John Buscema's Fantastic Four Part One
Big John Buscema. Hands down, one of the giants of Marvel Comics' Groovy Age. Most of us remember his Avengers and Conan as masterpieces of comicbook art, and that they are. Mr. B. also handled the art...
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R.I.P. Dear Ol' Dad
Greetings, Groove-ophiles. Just stopping in for a moment to let you know Ol' Groove will be taking most--or all--of this week off to take care of family matters. Dear Ol' Dad passed away this morning...
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Easing Back In...
 Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove just wants to thank all of you for the prayers, good thoughts, and encouraging words this past week. It's meant so, so much. The family and I are doing fine....
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Groove's Faves: "Panic in the Dream Stream" by Fleisher and Kirby
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Man, they don't make comics like this anymore--but I wish they would! Silly, fun, outrageous, imaginative, whimsical, original, and not one iota of self-consciousness or...
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Tuesday Team-up: "...Then Came Ramrod!" by Gerber and Heck
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-opiles! Who but Steve (Baby) Gerber could take a dull plot, a ridiculous villain, and some far-out coincidences (and I know some of you are adding "Don Heck art" to that list, but...
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Black and White Wednesday: "The Hyborian Age Chapter 6: The Darknes...and the...
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Are you ready for the fearsome final chapter of Roy Thomas and Walt Simonson's adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "The Hyborian Age"? Well, ready or not, from the pages of...
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Groove's Faves: "Kongzilla!" by Robbins and Evans
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Sick humor from DC's PLOP! #1 (June 1973). It's one of those stories that's so obvious that you can't figure out why you never thought of it yourself, but done up with...
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The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Gold Key's Lone Ranger
Ya know, Groove-ophiles, when I was a Li'l Groove, Gold Key/Western Publishing's painted covers really turned me off. They looked like magazines, not comicbooks, ya know? Now, by the time I hit my...
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Shades of Gray: "Two Worlds to Win!" by Effinger and Morrow
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Here at last is the final installment of Marvel's Gullivar Jones adaptation in Creatures on the Loose! Written by George Alec Effinger with art by (but of course!) Gray...
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Groovy Age Gold: "The Origin of Dr. Fate" by Fox and Sherman
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove has mentioned many times and often how much he digs Dr. Fate, like in this Secret Origins featuring Dr. Fate post, so I thought now might be a good time to take a...
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Black and White Wednesday: "The Pest!" by Hewetson and Corben
HowOOOO's it' goin', Groove-ophiles? Today's black and white monsterpiece was first seen (shambling through) Warren's Eerie #33 (March 1971). Written by "Archaic" Al Hewetson (before he got his...
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Groove's Faves: "Children of Doom" by O'Neil and Boyette
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today we're going to take a look back at Denny O'Neil (writing as Sergius O'Shaugnessy) and Pat Boyette's Children of Doom. Charlton's publishers and editory Dick Giordano...
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The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Herb Trimpe Made Me Buy These!
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Happy Herb Trimpe is one of the Groovy Age greats, and that's a fact. His over-half decade tenure on the Incredible Hulk clinched that, for sure, not to mention his work...
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Groove's Faves: Marvel Treasury Edition #7 featuring the Mighty Avengers
Happy birthday to moi, happy birthday to meeeeeeeee! Yeah, Ol' Groove's gettin' older today, hitting the big five-oh, just like my all-time faves, the Mighty Avengers! (Okay, they're not turning fifty...
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Bring on the Back-Ups: "The Last Duty!" by O'Neil and Craig
One of the best things about DC's Dollar Comics format was that it allowed the editors of those extra-sized comic mags to try a variety of content. One of the things editor Paul Levitz used for...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Kirby Speaks" and More from FOOM Magazine #11
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! As most of ya know, today would have been Jolly Jack Kirby's 96th birthday. To celebrate, we're looking back at the excitement that surrounded The King's return to Marvel...
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