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Black and White Wednesday: "The Black Sculpture of the Pharaohs" by Hewetson...
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today we've excavated an excellent yarn from Skywald's Psycho magazine (cover-dated March 1974). You might want to wrap yourself up with something as you read Archaic Al...
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Byrne-ing to Read/Amazed by Aparo: "In the Beginning" by Wein, Byrne, and Aparo
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Way back when John Byrne (along with writer Chris Claremont and inker Terry Austin) was making The Uncanny X-Men the coolest comicbook on the planet (think Dark Phoenix...
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Making a Splash: Mike Zeck's Master of Kung Fu, Part One
HiYAA, Groove-ophiles! Whaddya say we kick off this weekend with some sensational splashes featuring Shang-Chi and crew by Mike Zeck! Mighty Mike started out as a fill-in artist, but quickly became...
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Secret Origins: "The Jor-El Story" By Kupperberg, Chaykin, and Anderson
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! As Ol' Groove promised ya on Thursday (man, you guys really dug this post according to the number of hits it's gotten!), here comes the first ish of the first-ever comicbook...
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Groove's Faves: "One Must Die!" by Duffy and Gammill
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Ya know, from time to time, we've rapped about Luke Cage, Power Man (aka Hero for Hire). We've gabbed quite a bit about Iron Fist. But we've yet to have a sit-down about...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Package Deal" by Pasko and Bea
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna glom onto a spooktacular black and white shocker from Creepy #51 (cover-dated March 1973). "Package Deal" (according to theGrand Comics Database) was...
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Random Reads: "The Day of the Devil" by Levy and Amendola
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! It's been a long time since we rapped about Atlas/Seaboard's ka-razee Phoenix (last time we rapped about Phoenix was way back here), so today Ol' Groove is dusting off...
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Making a Splash: Mike Zeck's Master of Kung Fu, Part Two
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! As Ol' Groove promised ya last Friday, here are the rest of Mike Zeck's Groovy AgeMaster of Kung Fu splashes (issues 76-98), this bunch inked (all but one, #78, by Al Gordon)...
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Makin' Chaykin: "Duel at Dawn!" by Kanigher and Chaykin
Today's your lucky day, Groove-ophiles! It's the next chapter of Robert Kanigher and Howard Chaykin's Enemy Ace from Men of War #10 (September 1978)! Are you ready for a..."Duel at Dawn!"
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Setting the Pace: "Weird Stone" by Kraft, Perez, and McLaughlin
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna dig on another chapter of David A. Kraft and The Pace-Setter, himself, George Perez's Man-Wolf saga! From Creatures on the Loose #36 (April 1975),...
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Black and White Wednesday: "...Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled...
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna shiver and quiver to the spooky stylings of Archaic Al Hewetson and Maelo Cintron (pioneering the "wide-screen" layout style several decades before other...
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Random Reads: "Attack of the Reptile Men!" by Fleisher, Sekowsky, and Marcos
Has it really been nearly four years since we last rapped about Atlas/Seaboard's Incredible Hulk rip-off, The Brute? Why has it been so long? 'Cause ya seemed to have hated the first ish (naughty...
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The Grooviest Covers of All Time: June, 1979--35 Years Ago This Month...
Some say comics were on the rocks back in 1979, but you couldn't tell it at the spinner rack! Yeah, Charlton was in full-reprint mode, but Harvey, Gold Key, and Archie were still producing tons...
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Ol' Groove's Request Line: "Doom Must Die!" by Lieber and Wood
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! A lotta you have asked for it, so now you've got it! Today we're heading waaay back to September 1970 for the third ish of Astonishing Tales and yet another gorgeously illoed...
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Groove's Faves: "Trial By Fire" by Levitz, Staton, and Layton
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Nope, Ol' Groove hasn't forgotten we need to wrap up Paul Levitz, Joe Staton, and Bob Layton's haunting Huntress three parter from Batman Family! Right here it is, "Trial By...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Wizards of the Black Sun" by Thomas, Noto, and...
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Sword and sorcery time with Red Sonja from Savage Sword of Conan #23 (August 1977), baby! Co-written by Roy Thomas and Clara Noto with art by the definitive Big Red artist...
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Ol' Groove's Request Line: "The One-Shot Hero!" by Bates and Cockrum
Ol' Groove recently received a request from Groove-ophile (and former Incredible Hulk (among many other great comics) inker) Jim Sanders III, and Jim wished he could read Cary Bates and Dave Cockrum's...
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Making a Splash: Happy Herb's Hulk, Part Two
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Time for another heaping helping of Happy Herb Trimpe Incredible Hulk splash pages!! Feast your eyes on some of the greatest gamma-irradiated images that ever 'peared in...
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Random Reads: "Death Race to Cholera End!" by Fleisher and Cruz
Time t'saddle up an' hit the trail, Groove-ophiles! Did'ja know that talented hombre name'a E.R. Cruz, best known for his eerie work on The Shadow and hundreds of terror tales for DC's mystery mags,...
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Random Reads: "A Man for All Centuries!" by G. Friedrich, Estrada, and Giacoia
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! If you've read anything at all about the infamous, short-lived Atlas/Seaboard line of comics, you know that before the end of most of their titles' miniscule runs, they would...
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