Summer is here! Back in the summer of 1975, Young Groove could be found under a shady tree soaking up the four color wonders we're about to re-visit. T'was a bit harder to get all the comics I wanted that summer, since we'd moved from Harlan County and my beloved Mack's (sort of an early Wal-Mart with the best selection of comics, magazines, and paperbacks in the history of the world) to Knox County where, at first, stores that sold comics were a mite scarce. When we first moved in the spring of 1975, we spent an entire Saturday, covered three counties (yeah, my folks really loved me!!) checking out every establishment that might possibly sell comics. By the time summer hit, I'd found a couple grocery stores, a drugstore, and a department store that kept me swimming in superheroes, baby! In celebration of that glorious summer, today and tomorrow Ol' Groove's gonna share a mere sampling of the wonders my Saturday treks to those various stores wrought. Today, it's Marvel and DC. Tomorrow, it's everybody else! Ready? Set? Go!
It was a summer of beginnings and endings. Marvel's Giant-Size comics were making their last hurrah's as "annual" reprints, Jack Kirby was finishing his gig at DC, Marvel's B&W mags were in a major state of upheaval with most of the monster mags being canceled and being replaced by more sword and sorcery and experimental mags, DC was expanding its line of double-sized "Family" mags, and a little team called the All-New, All-Different
X-Men was turning fandom on its ear by killing off a member in their second adventure.
See ya tomorrow for the wrap-up with Charlton, Atlas/Seaboard, and the rest! Don'tcha miss it, now!
