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The Boys from Derby: "Revenge of the Dead" by Pellowski and Sutton
Season's Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Let's take a trip back to February 1975 so we can take a trip even further back to the days when pirates ruled the high seas! Of course, this being a short shocker...
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Making a Splash: Frank Robbins' Invaders
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! For our final post of 2016, why don't we plant our peepers on some spectacular splashes from one of Ol' Groove's fave Marvel mags: the Invaders! Roy Thomas' pet project that...
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Marvel-ous Mondays: "Hell In Helium!" by Wolfman, Kane, and Messina
Welcome to 2017, Groove-ophiles! How are we gonna bring in a New Year here in Groove City? By truckin' on back to 1977 (August, to be exact) to find out what Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter is up to...
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Decent Comics: "United We Fall!" by Levitz, Staton, and Layton
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Paul Levitz, Joe Staton, and Bob Layton are cookin' with gas in All-Star Comics #69 (August 1977)! "United We Fall!" cleans up the left-over plotlines regarding Bruce Wayne's...
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Black and White Wednesday: Sensational Savage Sword of Conan Frontispieces
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna plant our peepers on far-out frontispieces from Savage Sword of Conan! Today Ol' Groove's chosen to showcase comicbook artists we don't normally associate with...
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Groovy Age Gold: "The Secret of the Buzzard's Revenge!" by Simon and Kirby
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Flipping through Jack Kirby's awesome New Gods #4 (June 1971), the very first 52 page, 25 cent ish, what jumped out and grabbed me by the brain but a reprint Jack and Joe...
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Making a Splash: Mister Miracle Volume Two by Rogers and Golden
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove's still in a Fourth World mood, so we're gonna plant our peepers on some sizzlin' splashes from the post-Kirby run of Mister Miracle, namely issues 19-25 (June...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "Cats and No Dogs" by Gerber, Skrenes, Mooney, and Marcos
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! With Omega the Unknown #4 (July 1976), writers Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes made it pretty clear that Omega and his battles with super-villains might be what the Powers That...
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Decent Comics: "Brothers" by O'Neil, Aragones, and Cardy
Howdy, Groove-ophiles! Here, sadly, is the final ish of DC's wonderful Bat Lash series. Dang. Ol' Groove hasn't even rapped about how cinematic the strip was, right down to the TV-like round corners on...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Whom the Gods Would Destroy" by Wolfman and Barr
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Howzabout we take a gander at a sci-fi shocker from Eerie #33 (March 1971)? This one is pretty wild, and it has a cool pedigree, being written by a young Marv Wolfman and...
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Random Reads: Little Lotta in "A Good Turn"
Howzit hangin', Groove-ophiles! Ya know, in this day and age of health and fitness, a story like "A Good Turn" takes on so many different meanings. One thing that remains both the same and timeless...
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Grooviest Covers of All Time: Thirteen #13s for the Thirteenth
Yep, just what the title says, baby...How many of these are you lucky enough to have?
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Marvel-ous Mondays: "The Sun God!" by Conway, Smith, and Grainger
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Here's yet another sample of Barry (not-yet-Windsor-) Smith growing as an artist by leaps and bounds--but not on Conan the Barbarian! While everyone knows about Barry's...
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Decent Comics: "The Eternity Man" by Wein and Redondo
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! "The Eternity Man" from Swamp Thing #12 (June 1974) by Len Wein and Nestor Redondo. Ol' Groove's got a cold, so I'm not gonna rap, just gonna turn ya loose on a beauty of...
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Black and White Wednesday: Alex Nino Original DC Art
The fellas from the Philippines could draw comics, Groove-ophiles! So many fine illustrators (like yesterday's Nestor Redondo, to name one)Â that blew us away during the Groovy Age, especially at DC....
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The Boys from Derby: "Baku the Dream Eater" by Tom Sutton
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Well, today we're gonna take a look at Charlton Comics getting cosmic--via the genius of Tom Sutton! Yep, "Baku the Dream Eater," from Ghostly Haunts #55 (July 1977) makes no...
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Making a Splash: P. Craig Russell's War of the Worlds/Killraven
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! For Ol' Groove, one of the highest-of-the-high-points of Marvel in the Groovy Age was Don McGregor's War of the Worlds/Killraven run in Amazing Adventures. With artists like...
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Decent Comics: "Fight With Fire Drake" by Bridwell, Saaf, and Giordano
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! "New Look Supergirl" writer/artist/editor Mike Sekowsky's tenure ended so abruptly (according to Back Issue #84 publisher Carmine Infantino fired him and replaced him with...
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Happy 87th, John Romita Sr.
Happy eighty-seventh birthday, John Romita! As art director, "Ring-a-Ding" Romita was the man who made sure Marvel Comics looked, well, Marvel-ous during the Groovy Age. During the mid-to late 70s, his...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Bolt" by Margopoulos and Nino
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! "Bolt" by Rich Margopoulos and Alex Nino made its debut in the first issue of Warren's Rook mag (August 1979) and looked for all the world like the start of an ongoing...
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