Ho, ho, ho and Happy Holidays to you, Groove-ophiles! Well, it's December 1974. Earlier in the year my family had pulled up stakes in Fairfield, Ohio and moved back to Dear Ol' Dad's birthplace of Harlan County, Kentucky. While it was a bit of a culture shock, we were surrounded by family and I made a lot of good friends in the little town of Loyall. But the thing that really made it "home" to Kid Groove was my beloved Mack's Family Center--a Walmart before most of us had ever heard of a Walmart if you will: a grocery store complete with a built in Ben Franklin's (we called 'em Dime Stores back then) and the greatest book/magazine/newspaper section I'd ever seen. It sported two ginormous magazine racks, three paperback spinner racks, and (best of all) two loaded-down comicbook spinner racks. They got everything! I never missed an issue of any favorite comic, plus I got my first exposure to Warren's
Spirit reprints which REALLY knocked me out! Yep, great memories and great comics were found in that huge corner of the best store ever!
Mike Grell helped make the LSH continue to be awesome!
Super Sons, Vigilante, and some truly far-out Silver Age reprints!
Our Pal Sal Buscema inked by Joe Staton on a the origins of Mantis and Vision written by Steve Englehart! Whoo!
A stellar story in Steve Englehart's stellar CA&F run. So long, Nomad, welcome back Cap!
The beginnings of Steve Gerber and Sal Buscema's massive Headmen/Nebulon storyline starts here, baby!
Kid Groove actually wrote an LOC on this ish. I loved it a lot more than I do now, but still, it's a fun ish.
This spectacular ish (my first) made a life-long Eisner/Spirit fan of moi!
Atlas/Seaboard is represented!