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Marvel-ous Monday: Three Weird Wonder Tales with art by Powell, Wildey, and...
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Doing something wild, weird, and (hopefully) wonderful on this first Monday of September 2018 (Labor Day to those of us in the U.S.): focusing on three specific reprints from...
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Decent Comics: "A Kingdom to Re-Build!" by Skeates and Aparo
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! If it's monsters, underwater action, and political intrigue you crave--then Aquaman #48 (September 1969) is the comic for you! Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo bring you..."A...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Kerene" by Kraft and Domingo
David Anthony Kraft, best known for his stellar work as writer on the Defenders, Man-Wolf, Savage She-Hulk, and his own mag, the magnificent Comics Interview, made his comicbook debut with "Kerene" in...
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Funny Stuff: "Pussyfooting With the Pussycats" by Doyle, DeCarlo, and Lapick
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Here's a rare book-length Josie and the Pussycats tale for ya! Ol' Groove has gotta fess up: Archie Andrews is not, nor has he ever been, my favorite redhead. I dig Arch,...
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Making a Splash: August 1979
Why not hit the waybak machine and truck on back to August 1979 (I know, I know, it's September now, but what the hey), Groove-ophiles! We'll peel back the covers of every mag Teen Groove bought that...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "Enter: The Headmen!" by Gerber, S. Buscema, and Trapini
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Yeah, Ol' Groove knows that he wasn't fooling anyone with last Monday's post, but it was fun to write. Here, today, is the comic you knew was coming...the comic in which...
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Decent Comics: "Terminal for a Tragedy" by O'Neil, Grell, and Colletta
Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! We're back with the conclusion of the two-parter started in Green Lantern #94. "Terminal for a Tragedy," from Green Lantern #95 (March 1977) gives us cosmic action...
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Black and White Wednesday: Original John Buscema Cover Art
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove was just wandering around the interwebs and stumbled across a variety of bee-yoo-tee-ful scans of original John Buscema cover art for Groovy Age Marvel. These are...
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Mining for Gold(en): "Trouble In Paradise" by Kashdan, Golden, and Wiacek
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Here's a cool George Kashdan sci-fi fable, beautifully illustrated by artist Michael Golden and inker Bob Wiacek. While the plot of "Trouble In Paradise" might have seemed...
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Making a Splash: Walt Simonson's Groovy Age Batman
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Let's end this week on a high note: digging on the sensational Batman splashes penciled by wonderous Walt Simonson for Batman and Detective Comics! Mr. Simonson didn't do...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "And All the King's Madmen..." by Mantlo, Buckler, and Janson
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Here's another Deathlok masterpiece by the team of creator/plotter/penciler Rich Buckler, scripter Bill Mantlo, and inker/colorist Klaus Janson! Astonishing Tales #34...
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Decent Comics: "The Crime Computer!" by Mayer and Redondo
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Another day, another Groovy Age comicbook story featuring computers! Here's the conclusion to last month's Sheldon Mayer/Nestor Redondo Black Orchid two parter! From Phantom...
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Black and White Wednesday: "Sand Castle" by Fedory and Marcos
HowOOOO's it shakin', Groove-ophiles! Only in the Groovy Age could you find horror stories that--in one terror tale--feature botched bank robberies, plane crashes, treks through the desert, vampires,...
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Funny Stuff: "Badger's Baby Brother--Beastley!" by Drake and Adams
Good evening, Groove-ophiles! Groovy (You Won't Believe What I've Dug Up This Time) Agent here with an eeeeaaarrrrly Neal Adams job for DC Comics on (in case you couldn't guess) Adventures of Bob Hope...
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Making a Splash: When the Captain Was a Ms. (Marvel, That Is!)
Dig it, Groove-ophiles! The trailer for the newMs. Captain Marvel flick just dropped, so Ol' Groove thought it might be a good time to look back at the original, Groovy Age series in all its...
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Marvel-ous Monday: "Beware the Basilisk My Son!" by Wein, Kane, and Mooney
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! We're gonna kick off this week with a rare teaming of Spider-Manand Captain Marvel (the male, cosmic one) from Marvel Team-Up #16 (September 1973). "Beware the Basilisk My...
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Decent Comics: "Master of the Seventh Void" by Michelinie, Giffen, Villagran,...
Here we go, Groove-ophiles! Some of you have been waiting for Claw the Unconquered to get out of Conan's shadow for good. If "Master of the Seventh Void" doesn't fit the bill, then Ol' Groove doesn't...
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Black and White Wednesday: Happy Birthday, Bob Layton (and Thanks for the...
Yesterday was Bob Layton's 65th birthday. Happy birthday, Bob! Your inks made some of the greatest comics of all time even more special, and Ol' Groove thanks you for that! (And for sharing these sweet...
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Groovy Age Gold: "Terror Rides the Rails!" by Kanigher, Infantino, and Giacoia
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Hidden in the back of JLA #99 (April 1972) is a reprint of the Golden Age Atom story that introduced Al Pratt's more "modern" costume as designed by artists Carmine...
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The Grooviest Covers of All Time: The Groovy Age JLA Covers That Really...
The title says it all, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove is just in the mood to pore over those Justice League of America covers that grabbed my imagination when I was just a Li'l Groove. Not just the awesome...
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