Kane Covers Conan!

 We need to dig on some Gil Kane Conan the Barbarian covers, Groove-ophiles! Here are a dozen of Ol' Groove's favorites. You'll note that many of them were inked by Ernie Chan, who inked the interiors (over Big John Buscema, natch) of those self-same issues. Frank Brunner, Ralph Reese, Dick Giordano, and even Kane, himself, also inked some of 'em. They are things of savage beauty! Enjoy!!

The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Weird Heroes

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today Ol' Groove is (finally) sharing the covers of his all-time favorite paperback novel series: Weird Heroes! Byron Preiss' brainchild of New American Pulp will be getting lots and lots more digital ink in the future, so right now I'll just say the series was beyond amazing and its arrival was definitely a life-changing event for moi. (Why? Look at the names of the talent listed on these covers and you just might figure it out...) Instead of my rapping, let's just salivate over Weird Heroes as covered by artistic masters Jim Steranko, Alex Nino, Ralph Reese, Jeffrey Jones, and Stephen Hickman...

Groove's Faves: "The End of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents?" by Reese and Tuska

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Did'ja know that Ralph Reese, artist par excellence, also wrote many a tale for mentor Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and Dynamo mags? S'truth! Here's a cool one from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #16 (cover-dated October 1967), "The End of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents?" illustrated by George Tuska!

Black and White Wednesday: "Let the Dreamer Beware" by Siegel and Reese

Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Skywald does it again! In the 1974 Nightmare Yearbook, editor "Archaic" Al Hewetson mixed Golden Age great (co-creator of Superman, fer cryin' out loud!) Jerry Siegel with Wally Wood protege Ralph Reese and we got "Let the Dreamer Beware"! Don'tcha just love how well the Golden Age and the Groovy Age mix? It's outtasite!!

Groove's Faves: "The Day After the Martians Came!" by Pohl, Conway, and Reese

How 'bout another sci-fi shocker, Groove-ophiles? This is a goodie, "The Day After the Martians Came!" adapted by Gerry Conway and Ralph Reese from Frederick Pohl's immortal short story. This classic first appeared in Marvel's World's Unknown #1 (February 1973). Can you dig it?

Random Reads: "Escape!" by Ralph Reese

Check out this early Ralph Reese monster-piece, Groove-ophiles! From March, 1971's Monsters on the Prowl #11, prepare to..."Escape!"

Black and White Wednesday: "Twin Burial" by Robinson and Reese

You dig zombies, Groove-ophiles? A lotta folks do these days (wonder why?), but back during the Groovy Age, the only place to get your zombie fix on a regular basis was Marvel's b&w Tales of the Zombie. Today's "Twin Burial", by Chuck Robinson and Ralph Reese, comes from Tales of the Zombie #2 (June 1973). Of course, it's not exactly a zombie story. Pre-zombie, perhaps? You decide!