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!

Making a Splash! Marvel Comics, November, 1974

Most comics-centric sites and blogs post covers. We all love covers. Covers are what sold us on many books back in the Groovy Age. But, you know Ol' Groove likes to be different (I have no choice!), so I got to thinking about...splash pages! Real splash pages. The first page of the comic that tried almost as hard as the cover to nab your interest. Ya know, sometimes splash pages helped sell comics, too. Many was the time we'd trade for coverless comics. There were even times (Shhh! No tattling!) when we'd find coverless comics wrapped in cellophane three for a quarter. So for today's Thanksgiving Treat, I'll be tossing up a splash page salad made of the coolest of the cool from Marvel Comics, 34 years ago this very month (don't let that "February" in the indicia fool ya, Groove-ophile, these babies came out in time for Turkey Day, 1974).



Hope ya didn't get too full! I've got more Thanksgiving goodies coming your way tomorrow! Pax!