Well, 2020 just keeps on taking. Yesterday the following announcement was made on Joe Sinnott's personal Facebook page. I'll run it here in its entirety:
It with great sorrow that we must announce the passing of Joltin’ Joe Sinnott on June 25th at 8:40am at the age of 93. He went peacefully with the knowledge that his family, friends, and fans adored him. He enjoyed life and was drawing up until the end. He always loved hearing from all of you and having your comments read to him. Each and every one of you were special to him.
The Sinnott family requests their privacy and understanding during this difficult time. Please send condolences to:
The Sinnott Family
27 Spaulding Lane
Saugerties, NY 12477
Thank you again for being such loyal and dedicated fans and friends to Joe. He considered all fans friends, and seeing you at cons and reading your messages was what kept him young at heart.
RIP Joe Sinnott
October 16th, 1926 - June 25th, 2020
By all accounts, Mr. Sinnott lived a full life, beloved by most everyone he knew. He left a wonderful legacy as a human and as an artist. A man couldn't really ask for more than that, could he? I know his artistry charmed and amazed many of us for decades. Let's just sit back and enjoy some samples of that talent (from the Groovy Age, of course) in his memory...
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| Pencils by Rich Buckler |
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| Captain America #110 |
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| Captain America #116 |
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| Captain America #141 |
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| Fantastic Four #66 |
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| Fantastic Four #112 |
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| Fantastic Four #150/Pencils by Rich Buckler |
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| Fantastic Four #184 |
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| Fantastic Four #200 |
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| Fantastic Four #211 |
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| Marvel Feature #11 |
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| Marvel Two-In-One #2/Pencils by Gil Kane |
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| Pep #268/Pencils by Al Hartley |
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| Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch #4/Pencils by Stan Goldberg |
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| Thor #191 |
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| Thor #227 |
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| Thor #265 |
Godspeed, Joltin' Joe!
Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!
Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!
Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week
Groovy Age Spotlight On...Gil Kane "In the Rough(s)!"
All of Groove-dom knows that Gil Kane was the main cover-man at Marvel in the early-to-mid 1970s. Here are a bunch of cover roughs/preliminaries (which yers trooly scrounged from all over the interwebs) for some famous (and not-so-famous but still pretty cool) Kane kovers that Made Ours Marvel during the Groovy Age!
Special thanks to Mike's Amazing World of Comics and Grand Comics Database for being such fantastic resources for covers, dates, creator info, etc. Thou art treasures true!
Note to "The Man": All images are presumed copyright by the respective copyright holders and are presented here as fair use under applicable laws, man! If you hold the copyright to a work I've posted and would like me to remove it, just drop me an e-mail and it's gone, baby, gone.
All other commentary and insanity copyright GroovyAge, Ltd.
As for the rest of ya, the purpose of this blog is to (re)introduce you to the great comics of the 1970s. If you like what you see, do what I do--go to a comics shop, bookstore, e-Bay or whatever and BUY YOUR OWN!
