Well, 2020 just keeps on taking. Yesterday the following announcement was made on Joe Sinnott's personal Facebook page. I'll run it here in its entirety:
It with great sorrow that we must announce the passing of Joltin’ Joe Sinnott on June 25th at 8:40am at the age of 93. He went peacefully with the knowledge that his family, friends, and fans adored him. He enjoyed life and was drawing up until the end. He always loved hearing from all of you and having your comments read to him. Each and every one of you were special to him.
The Sinnott family requests their privacy and understanding during this difficult time. Please send condolences to:
The Sinnott Family
27 Spaulding Lane
Saugerties, NY 12477
Thank you again for being such loyal and dedicated fans and friends to Joe. He considered all fans friends, and seeing you at cons and reading your messages was what kept him young at heart.
RIP Joe Sinnott
October 16th, 1926 - June 25th, 2020
By all accounts, Mr. Sinnott lived a full life, beloved by most everyone he knew. He left a wonderful legacy as a human and as an artist. A man couldn't really ask for more than that, could he? I know his artistry charmed and amazed many of us for decades. Let's just sit back and enjoy some samples of that talent (from the Groovy Age, of course) in his memory...
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| Pencils by Rich Buckler |
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| Captain America #110 |
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| Captain America #116 |
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| Captain America #141 |
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| Fantastic Four #66 |
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| Fantastic Four #112 |
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| Fantastic Four #150/Pencils by Rich Buckler |
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| Fantastic Four #184 |
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| Fantastic Four #200 |
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| Fantastic Four #211 |
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| Marvel Feature #11 |
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| Marvel Two-In-One #2/Pencils by Gil Kane |
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| Pep #268/Pencils by Al Hartley |
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| Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch #4/Pencils by Stan Goldberg |
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| Thor #191 |
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| Thor #227 |
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| Thor #265 |
Godspeed, Joltin' Joe!
Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!
Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!
Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week
Groovy Age Spotlight On...The Archies!
Yeah, Groove-ophiles! Let's (bubblegum) rock a bit with
The Archies! When I was just a Li'l Groove,
The Archies were my absolute favorite thing! The comics, the cartoons, and the records were a huge part of my daily life (well, the cartoons were just on Saturdays, but ya know what I mean). I had no idea who
Ron Dante or
Toni Wine, who made up
the "real" Archies, were. Being a naïve little kid, I believed it was really my favorite cartoon characters singing those songs! (Even if the speaking voices
Dallas McKennon,
Howard Morris,
John Erwin, or
Jane Webb in no way matched the singing voices. What did I know?) And yeah, I watched every version of the cartoons from
The Archie Show and
Archie's Funhouse right on through--gulp--
Archie's TV Funnies and
U.S. of Archie! Anywho, my love for
The Archies' music started with the music segments on the cartoons and led directly to the first single, "Bang-Shang-a-Lang"/"Truck Driver", then right on to the albums
Everything's Archie and
The Archie's Greatest Hits--which I still have to this very day!
Here are two of my favorites by
The Archies--not their biggest hits, but two, imho, of their best and most endearing: from
Everything's Archie "Circle of Blue" and from
The Archies' Greatest Hits "Seventeen Ain't Young". (If you like even more cheese than Ol' Groove, you can scroll back to the beginning of each song; if not, I skipped the "Dance Lessons" for ya...)
Special thanks to Mike's Amazing World of Comics and Grand Comics Database for being such fantastic resources for covers, dates, creator info, etc. Thou art treasures true!
Note to "The Man": All images are presumed copyright by the respective copyright holders and are presented here as fair use under applicable laws, man! If you hold the copyright to a work I've posted and would like me to remove it, just drop me an e-mail and it's gone, baby, gone.
All other commentary and insanity copyright GroovyAge, Ltd.
As for the rest of ya, the purpose of this blog is to (re)introduce you to the great comics of the 1970s. If you like what you see, do what I do--go to a comics shop, bookstore, e-Bay or whatever and BUY YOUR OWN!
