The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Marvel Annuals in the Summer of 76

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! The Summer of 76! The summer of the U.S Bi-centennial! T'was an extremely far-out summer for Young (ready-to-become-Teen) Groove! One of the things that made it extra special was the return of Marvel's Annuals. The Giant-Size line of 1974-75 was gone, but the annuals were back with a vengeance! As with the Giant-Size mags, we got a brand-new 34 page epic with each annual, some standing on their own (like Spidey's), others crossing over into their own regular titles (like Avengers), and some, still, crossing over from regular title to annual to another annual (like F.F./Marvel Two-In-One). Whoo! That extra yard-work change sure came in handy! How many of these Marvel-ous masterpieces did you manage to snag?

The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Marvel-ous Summer Annuals

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove's in a summer-time mood, and what better way to celebrate the summer than to look back at some of the grooviest covers to ever decorate a superb-summer annual! Today we dig the most Marvel-ous of summer annuals. To help me narrow things down, I chose covers from all-new annuals, not the reprints (I'll have to find another excuse to run that Conan Annual #1 cover by BWS. Ah, well...) In no particular order, here's some'a the best of the best by Kirby, Kane, Buscema, Cockrum, Starlin, Simonson, Byrne, Miller, and more!