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Making a Splash: Joe Staton's Super, Boy!
Happy birthday, Joe Staton! One of Groove City's absolute favorite artists is celebrating today, and we wanna help celebrate in our own small but far-out way! As most of you know, Joe's snazzy art has...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "Deadlock" by Gold, Colan, and Everett
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today we're looking at a cool episode of Black Widow from Amazing Adventures #4 (October 1970). Not only does it have knock-out gorgeous art by the incredible penciler/inker...
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Decent Comics: "The Mirror Monster" by Conway and Redondo
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! A lot of folks think that "relevant" comics died out in 1971-72, but comicbooks have always had a social conscious, and that desire for righting social wrongs was alive...
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Black and White Wednesday: Ring-a-Ding Original Art
Happy birthday Jazzy John Romita! Where would we Groovy Age fans be without this phenomenal artist and his art direction at Marvel during the 1970s? Would Punisher, Wolverine, Luke Cage, the Savage...
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Funny Stuff: John Costanza One-pagers
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! While John Costanza is best remembered as an ace comicbook letterer, he's also a dyn-o-mite cartoonist, to boot! He did tons of humor strips for Gold Key, lots of humor fillers...
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The Grooviest Covers of All Time: More Comics Our Pal Sal Made Me Buy
Another birthday this week? Yep, today is the 82nd birthday of Silvio Buscema, better known as Young Groove's first favorite artist, Our Pal Sal! Man, oh, man, was I ever bowled over by Sal's covers!...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "Dead Reckoning!" by Moench, Buckler, and Marcos
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! All of Groove City knows what a huge fan of Rich Buckler and Deathlok Ol' Groove is (you can read my thoughts along with the first two Deathlok tales here and here, by the...
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Decent Comics: "Is This My Foe?" by Skeates and Aparo
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Here's the third chapter in Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo's sensational Aquaman saga! From Aquaman #42 (September 1968), here's Aquaman vs. Black Manta in..."Is This My...
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Black and White Wednesday: Rudy Nebres' REH Portfolio
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Rudy Nebres is another was another Filipino artist whose art made a huge impact on the American comicbook scene during the Groovy Age. He mostly worked as an inker, but he...
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The Boys from Derby: "The Enchanted Man" by Pat Boyette
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Over on the Charlton Facebook pages, Pat Boyette fever is runnin' wild. Mort Todd is working on getting an unpublished Boyette job featuring Cat Girl (written by Paul...
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The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Al Milgrom Keeps It Cosmic
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! In the mid-1970s, Al Milgrom had graduated from Jim Starlin's inker on Captain Marvel to the penciler of our Kree Captain's marvelous mag. During that time, Al also drew...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "Rebirth!" by Drake, Ayers, and Colletta
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! If you thought Jim Starlin was the first to take Captain Mar-Vell on a trippy metamorphosis, you might wanna think again! In Captain Marvel #11 (December 1968), Arnold Drake,...
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Decent Comics: "Twelve Million Years to Twilight" by Conway, Giffen, and Celardo
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! All good things must come to an end, and so it goes with DC's Groovy Age revival of Challengers of the Unknown. Yep, Challs #87 (March 1978) is the grand finale of the massive...
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Black and White Wednesday: "The Secret of Skull River!" by Thomas, Starlin,...
Hail, Groove-ophiles! Here's a teaming Ol' Groove would have loved, loved, (and I do mean) LOVED to have seen more of: Roy Thomas, Jim Starlin, and Al Milgrom on Conan! Do ya remember this one from...
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Funny Stuff: "The Unseen Invader!"
Get ready for a giggle, Groove-ophiles! Here's an episode of Ol' Groove's personal favorite Harvey Comics character, Stumbo the Giant, from the back pages of Hot Stuff #155 (April 1980). "The Unseen...
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Making a Splash: Rich Buckler Groovin' Around the Marvel Universe (and Beyond)
This past Tuesday, February 6, would have been Rich Buckler's 69th birthday. All of Groove-dom knows how much yers trooley loves Mr. Buckler's work. We've shared Buckler's best-known Marvel splashes...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "Enter the Stilt-Man--Exit Black Goliath!" by Claremont,...
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! We're up to ish #4 of Black Goliath--the penultimate ish--as well as one that would pave the way to the best ish of the series (#5, natch--which you can read here). Writer...
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Decent Comics: "Promise for a Princess!" by Albano and DeZuniga and "A Time...
Howdy, Groove-ophiles! You'd have thought that when DC changed All-Star Western's moniker to Weird Western Tales with ish #12 (April 1972), that Jonah Hex, the mag's new star, would have been the cover...
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Black and White Wednesday: Direct Currents for February/March 1975
Happy Valentines Day, Groove-ophiles! While Ol' Groove doesn't have any romance stories for ya today, we can just continue our love-fest for what we adoringly call The Groovy Age today by looking back...
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Random Reads: "Fifty Million Tons of Soul!" by Haney, Oksner, and Smith
Dig it, Groove-ophiles, even in the waning days of the Groovy Age, DC was still producing some sentimental, slice of life comics the likes of which were getting more and more rare. One little...
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