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Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!

May 26 & 28, 1970

Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week

Groovy Age Spotlight On...Gil Kane "In the Rough(s)!"

All of Groove-dom knows that Gil Kane was the main cover-man at Marvel in the early-to-mid 1970s. Here are a bunch of cover roughs/preliminaries (which yers trooly scrounged from all over the interwebs) for some famous (and not-so-famous but still pretty cool) Kane kovers that Made Ours Marvel during the Groovy Age!

Making a Splash: Colan and Palmer's (Dr.) Strange Days Part 2

Ol' Groove just finished watching Doctor Strange again on Netflix, and that reminded me that I'd never gotten around to the second round of the Gene Colan/Tom Palmer Doctor Strange splashes (see where Ol' Groove gets his ideas?). Remember we shared the early Groovy Age splashes back in this post? (A couple years really gets away from us here in Groove City, doesn't it?) Anywho, while Gene the Dean eventually came back to Doctor Strange's mid-70s solo mag, it took a few issues for inker Tom Palmer to join him there. There was ish #8 (March 1975), then the Sorcerer Supreme Team hung in together for issues 11-18 (September 1975-June 1976), before both left the mag. Their time together made for some (dare Ol' Groove say it?) magical splashes!

Yeah, Gene and Tom worked together extensively on Tomb of Dracula (and what classic work that was). And yeah, Gene would come back for yet another round during the late Groovy Age with other inkers--mainly Dan Green--but that's a future post, baby!

The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Colan and Palmer's Dracula

It's October, Groove-ophiles, so let's get in some early trick-or-treating by treating ourselves to 13 (you guessed it) darkly dy-no-mite Tomb of Dracula covers by the art-team supreme of Tom and Gene! (Palmer and Colan, that is, and yeah, Gene's the penciler and Tom's the inker, but it rhymes better that way, baby!)

According to GCD, Marie Severin had a hand in this'un.

Making a Splash: Ms. Marvel, Year One

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Wanna take a look back at the first year's worth of sizzling Ms. Marvel splashes by titantic talents like the Brothers Buscema, Jim Mooney, Keith Pollard, Joe Sinnott, Frank Giacoia, Tom Palmer, and Sam Grainger? Yeah, Ol' Groove thought you might! Well, here there are from issues 1-13 (October 1977-October 1978)!

The second year-plus would bring talents like Carmine Infantino, Dave Cockrum, and Mike Vosburg to the fold. We'll check 'em out in a future post if ya wanna!