Team-up Week! The Grooviest Covers of All Time: DC Comics Presents Superman and...

'Tis the last day of Team-up Week, Groove-ophiles, so let's end with something super! SuperMAN, that is! Near the end of the Groovy Age, DC finally gave Superman his own team-up mag (without having to kick Batman out of World's Finest like they did in the early 70s)! The mag was pretty cool, but some of the covers alone were worth the spare change it cost to buy them! Especially great were the covers by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, but Ross Andru and Jim Starlin turned out some cool ones before the Groovy Age came to a close! Here are Ol' Groove's faves! Which ones do you dig the most?

Team-up Week! Thursday Team-ups: "The Gravity War!" by Conway, Edelman, Jones, and Tanghal

Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Another day, another day of Team-up Week! Today we're wrapping up the Supergirl/Doom Patrol team-up from Superman Family! "The Gravity War!" plotted by Gerry Conway, scripted by Scott Edelman, and illustrated by Arvell Jones and Romeo Tanghal appeared in Superman Family #193 (October 1978)...

Team-up Week! Black and White Wednesday: "And Then...The X-Men!" by Moench, Simonson, and Alcala

Welcome back to Team-Up Week! Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Not only do we get another chapter of the truly-far-out Doug Moench/Walt Simonson/Alfredo Alcala Rampaging Hulk saga (from RH #2, January 1977), but this one includes more aliens, a giant robot (or is it?), and the original X-Men! Dig it, the "first" meeting of Ol' Jade Jaws and the Children of the Atom--at least until the series was ret-conned out of existence. Sigh... Anywho, Moench's story is loads of fun (The Hulk in Europe!), Simonson's layouts are very strong and powerful, and Alcala's inks (or is that charcoal?) are outtasite! Why are you still reading Ol' Groove's ramblings (or are you)? We'll travel back to 1962/63 via 1977, hook up with Greenskin and Rick..."And Then...The X-Men!"

Cover art by Ken Barr