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: Marvelous December Debuts

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Last Friday we looked back at dauntless DC mags/characters that made their debuts during Groovy Age Decembers, so Ol' Groove thought it might be cool to do the same for Marvel's December debuts! Marvel didn't hit us with nearly as many frosty firsts as DC, but what we did get was pretty cool, don'tcha think?

Sword and Sorcery Week! The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Big Red!

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! After Conan, Red Sonja was the most popular barbarian warrior in Marvel's stable. Though she only headlined twenty-two issues of her own during the Groovy Age (Marvel Feature Vol. 2, issues 1-7, Red Sonja numbers 1-15, August 1975-February 1979), she popped up in a few issues of Conan, in back-ups in Savage Sword of Conan and Marvel Super Special, and even had her own fan club! Most remember Frank Thorne's eloquent art because he drew the majority of the comics--and their covers--but there were a few other talented pencil-pushers who drew either covers or interiors for Big Red, among them Gil Kane, John Buscema, and Frank Brunner! We're gonna dig on Ol' Groove's fave covers from M.F. and R.S., featuring the work of Kane, Thorne, and Brunner! Bet you'll dig 'em, too!

Hope you enjoyed Sword and Sorcery Week!

Black and White Wednesday: "Master of Shadows" by Marx, J. Buscema, and DeZuniga

What it is, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna relax with a classic Red Sonja b&w bonanza by Christy Marx, John Buscema, and Tony DeZuniga! "Master of Shadows" was published in Savage Sword of Conan #45 (July 1979). Teen Groove got this one for his sixteenth birthday (along with a few other Marvel-ous goodies)--lucky for lax newsstand standards--my copy was stuck behind a copy of SSoC #46! Enjoy Big Red in B&W, Groove-ophiles!

Black and White Wednesday: "Wizards of the Black Sun" by Thomas, Noto, and Thorne

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Sword and sorcery time with Red Sonja from Savage Sword of Conan #23 (August 1977), baby! Co-written by Roy Thomas and Clara Noto with art by the definitive Big Red artist Frank Thorne, here are the..."Wizards of the Black Sun"!