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Sunday Funnies: Jerry Lewis in "The Bird with the Million Dollar Beak"
So, Groove-ophiles, are you enjoying your long weekend (for those of ya in the U.S.--sorry, everyone else!)? A mainstay of Ol' Groove's Labor Day festivities is the annual Jerry Lewis/MDA Telethon. The...
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Grooviest Covers of All Time: (Frank) Miller Time!
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! How 'bout we kick back and "Marvel" at a flock of fab-a-mundo Frank Miller covers! And not the covers you'd expect, baby! Ol' Groove never takes the easy way out. Didja know...
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The Boys from Derby: A Nick Cuti Tuesday Two-fer
Summer is officially over, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer...it's time to settle in for some thrills and chills from things that go "bump!" in the night. One of Ol' Groove's...
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Black and White Wednesday: "The Comet's Curse!" by Saunders and Brunner
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! How 'bout a creepy classic from Warren's Eerie? Yeah, Ol' Groove thought you'd dig that! Here's a goodie from Eerie #35 (cover-dated September 1971) by Buddy Saunders and...
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(P)Raising Kane: "The Saviors!"
What it is, Groove-ophiles! I'll tell ya what it is, it is time for a far-out and funky sci-fi classic illustrated by the great Gil Kane. "The Saviors!" is written by the awesome J.M. DeMatteis,...
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Making a Splash: The Avengers by George Perez Part 2
What's up, Groove-ophiles! Can you believe Ol' Groove has yet nearly a year slip away since the last George Perez/Avengers Making a Splash post? Where does the time go? (I know, slippin', slippin',...
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Gimme a Break!
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove's keeping this short and sweet: I'm gonna have to put Groove City on auto-pilot for a few days while I try to recover from a severe case of--believe it or...
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Atlas Is Back--and So Is Ol' Groove!
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Did'ja miss me? Well, I'm back--easing back in (elbow's still swollen some, can't type for very long), but I can't stand it any longer! I miss my Groove-ophiles, so here I...
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Sunday Funnies: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Li'l Groove dug The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Not the movie (which I wouldn't see until I was a dad, m'self) but the TV show (1969-1972) that starred Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz. I loved the little...
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Face Front(ispieces)! Hulking Out in Marvel Super-Color
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! It's not easy being green, but it's certainly easy to find superbly stunning art featuring Marvel's Green Goliath! When the black and white Rampaging Hulk mag morphed into...
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Tuesday Team-Up: Superman and Supergirl in "The Feud of the Titans!" by...
Welcome back to Groove City, baby! Here's a Tuesday Team-Up featuring our favorite Kryptonian cousins Superman and Supergirl in a "Tale of the Fortress" (of Solitude) featurette by "Geoff Browne" (aka...
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Black and White Wednesday: The Origin of Jim Starlin's Darklon
What's happening, Groove-ophiles! It's been way too long since we got down with Jim Starlin's Darklon the Mystic, so Ol' Groove's gonna lay the Mystic One's origin on ya today! I mentioned in my last...
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Thursday Triple-Play: Forgotten Shockers from Archie's Super Hero Comics...
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! We've rapped about the legendary Archie's Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine #2 (Summer 1979) before, but did'ja ever realize that there are some decidedly non-super hero...
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Grooviest Covers of All Time: More Steranko Phase II
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! More Jim Steranko covers from 1972/73. You don't wanna read my rappin', you wanna groove to these far-out covers. Go for it, baby!
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Those Groovy Saturday Mornings: More Mighty Mightor and Birdman
More far-out fun from Hanna-Barbera TV Super-Heroes #5 (January 1969), Groove-ophiles! Check out the action with Mighty Mightor and Birdman. Don't touch that dial!
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Sunday Funnies: Historical Plops
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Hey, we haven't PLOP!ped in a while--whaddya say Ol' Groove lays some highly hysterical Historical Plops upon ya? Yeah, I thought you'd dig it! This series of Plop!-ular...
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Bring On the Back-Ups: A Hidden Treasure by Adams, Thomas, Severin, Trimpe,...
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! I can't say that I understand how things like today's sci-fi shocker happen, but I can say that I'm sure glad they did back in the Groovy Age! In 1971, most of Marvel's color...
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Shades of Gray: Forgotten Vigilante Adventures
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today Ol' Groove is tossin' a Tuesday Two-fer at ya featuring Gray Morrow's short-but-stunning Vigilante revival (using the Earth-1 Vigilante introduced in JLA #'s 78-79)...
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Black and White Wednesday: Jack Kirby's "Murder, Inc."
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Been digging through the Files of the Far Out and here's what Ol' Groove's got for you today: from DC's fab fan-mag Amazing World of DC Comics #1 (April 1974), here's...
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Diggin' Ditko: "Frogman" by Cuti and Ditko
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Here's a teaming of the titanic talents of Nick Cuti and Steve Ditko on a real chiller-diller from Monster Hunters #8 (August 1976). Keeping it short and sweet, read...
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