Happy Groovy Thanksgivings of Yore!

Some of Ol' Groove's favorite comics came out in November, and I've shared a whole lot of 'em here on the blog. In a weird bout of nostalgic nostalgia, Ol' Groove would like to help you (in the U.S.A) celebrate Thanksgiving (happy Thursday to the rest of the world!) with some of my most favorite faves that I've shared here with you in our past Thanksgiving Feasts! So, instead'a cooking to enjoy these tasty morsels of comicbook wonder, all ya have to do is click! Enjoy, Groove-ophiles!

Strange Tales #178 (Jim Starlin's Warlock epic begins!), The Destructor #1 (Archie Goodwin, Steve Ditko, and Wally Wood give us a most unexpected super-hero), and Scorpion #1 (Howard Chaykin's pulp-hero supreme)! Click here to read 'em all!

Ol' Groove's all-time favorite ish of Creepy! Read the best of this issue's best here, here, and here!

Marvel's greatest one-shot mag featuring early solo tales starring The Punisher and (Howard Chaykin's "reboot" of Scorpion) Dominic Fortune and the twin debuts of The Huntress (better known as Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird) and Weirdworld!

A special (or should I say Super Special) "issue" of Savage Sword of Conan in full color!

And finally, one of the best b&w comic mags of all time! The debut of Tigerman, Lawrence of Arabia...The Sting of Death...and Escape from Nine by 1!

The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Jim Starlin's Thanos In the Groovy Age

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! You knew that we were gonna wind up Thanos Week with a loving look back at Jim Starlin and company's cozmik covers featuring Thanos, right? Well, you know how Ol' Groove hates to disappoint, so here ya go!

Inks by Frank Giacoia

Inks by Pablo Marcos

Inks by Klaus Janson

Art by Ron Wilson and John Romita

Inks by Klaus Janson

Inks by Alan Weiss

Cover by Al Milgrom and Mike Esposito (probably?)

Many thanks, as always, to the Grand Comics Database for the far-out scans!

Thanos Week! Comicbook Scenes Ol' Groove Hopes Will (At Least Sort Of) Be In Avengers: Infinity War

Wow, is that a mouthful of a title or what, Groove-ophiles? Still, that's what we're gonna look at today. Ol' Groove has picked through all the Groovy Age appearances of Thanos and these (in no particular order) are the scenes I HOPE we'll see in Avengers: Infinity War in some form or fashion...

Thanos' twisted love of Death has GOT to be part of the story. Hopefully this particular scene will come to life on the big screen!

Thanos and some of our heroes floating in space on rocks would look so cool, but Thanos commanding a fleet of alien-manned starships is a must!

Thanos' imprisonment of Kronos would look soooo awesome on the big screen, wouldn't it?

Okay, this is two pages, but Drax vs. Thanos in a psychedelic battle is something Ol' Groove would definitely flip to see!

Thanos sending an entire building shooting off like a rocket at some of our heroes! Drax is already in the movie (although he doesn't fly), so Mar-Vell could be replaced by the Carol Danvers Captain Marvel or Star-Lord while Thor or Iron Man would be cool in Drax's place!

We've GOTTA see Thanos speechifying in front of tons of cosmic machinery, right?

Again, Ol' Groove knows that this is more than one page, but we've GOTTA see a slobber-knockerin' smack down of epic proportions between Thanos and Avengers heavyweights like Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, and Vision! Of course that would lead to...

...The Avengers captured and imprisoned by Thanos! Replace Thing with The Hulk and Beast with...Ant Man? Dr. Strange? Hmmm...

Spidey freaks out when he witnesses the power of Thanos! This scene will actually work better with the younger, less experienced movie version. And it's a sweet lead-in to...

...Spidey saves the day by releasing the Ultimate Avenger who will defeat Thanos! Now, we know the Ultimate Avenger won't be Adam Warlock (sniff), so my money is on...The Vision to fill that role.

Whaddya think? Is Ol' Groove asking for too much? Too little? Am I just ka-razee? What other scenes do you hope to see?

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! My brother-in-law The Badraven came on-location to Ol' Groove's kitchen to include me in a round-table discussion about the upcoming Avengers Infinity War movie for his YouTube channel! We, along with my MCU-loving niece and nephew, share our guesses about some of the things that we think might happen in this week's blockbuster, including a discussion of  scenes we'd love to see in Avengers Infinity War. You can watch the video by clicking here...dare you view the visage and hear the voice of Ol' Groove? Click this link!

Black and White Wednesday: FOOM Magazine #9 Cosmic Stuff by Stern, Vohland, Starlin, Byrne, and more

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Here's the best ish of FOOM Magazine Young Groove never had: the special cosmic issue: FOOM #9 (late 1974/early 1975)! Yeah, Young Groove's subscription for FOOM ran out with ish #4 and the family was moving from Ohio to Kentucky, so the folks nixed my re-upping for a while. After the move, I met a fellow sixth-grader named David who loved comics as much as I did. He had a subscription for FOOM and let me borrow his copies. Wotta pal! FOOM #9 started off with an in-freakin'-credible Jim Starlin cover and was loaded with articles on Silver Surfer, Warlock, Captain Mar-Vell, and the Watcher by a young Roger Stern and the late Duffy Vohland, and filled-to-the-brim with outtasite art by newcomers like John Byrne, Don Maitz, and Stephen Fabian. Is it any wonder I loved this ish?

And just 'cause Ol' Groove loves ya, baby, here's the legendary Mistress of Kung Fu back cover, also by that kid Byrne!

Oh, and fear not, faithful ones! Ol' Groove eventually got his own copy of FOOM #9 (thanks, eBay!). Oh, and my folks let me re-subscribe just in time to get FOOM #10 featuring the All-New, All-Different X-Men. Don'tcha just love happy endings?

Black and White Wednesday: Getting Cosmic With Original Jim Starlin Art

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Yers trooley has never shied away from blabbing on about his admiration for the enormous skills and genius of Jim Starlin. Once more I have scoured the interwebs for samples of original art. There's lots of Jim Starlin greatness out there...here's a batch of my own personal favorites...

Okay, those are just a taste of Starlin's cosmic majesty (inked by some of the all-time greats), but hey, it wasn't all cosmic. After all, they didn't call him "Judo Jim" for nothin'...

And oh yeah, we can't stop without acknowledging his far out Batman work with P. Craig Russell...

Yeah. Starlin is all kinds of awesome!