Decent Comics: "Multi-Man Rules the World" by Skeates, Sherman, and Abel

What it is, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna dig on Super-Team Family #10 (January 1977) featuring the Challengers of the Unknown in "Multi-Man Rules the World!" The team of Steve Skeates, James Sherman, and Jack Abel were clicking right along on all cylinders, bringing back some classic characters from the Challs' past, most notably the villainous Multi-Man. Sales must have been pretty good, because if you look at the blurb in the final panel of the final page you'll see that the Challs would be graduating to their own mag two months later. Strangely enough, even though this particular story would be continued in the revived mag, not a single one of the men who brought the Challengers back so successfully would be assigned to the new mag...

Cover art by Rich Buckler and Jack Abel

Decent Comics: "To Doomsday and Beyond!" by Skeates, Sherman, and Abel

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Here's the second of Steve Skeates, James Sherman, and Jack Abel's three Challengers of the Unknown stories for Super-Team Family! "To Doomsday and Beyond" is from Super-Team Family #9 (November 1976) and it's another tale that features the Challs acting kinda like Doc Savage's Amazing Five--without Doc around. It also features a mad scientist, bombs, a volcanoe, and a hidden civilization. In other words..."Ho-hum! Saving the world again..." (Ol' Groove loves that line!)

Cover art by Rich Buckler and Jack Abel

Tuesday Team-Up: "Gorilla My Dreams!" by Skeates, Estrada, and Wood

Hawkman! The Flash! Gorilla Grodd! Hawkgirl! Black Canary! Steve Skeates! Ric Estrada! Wally Wood! Frank Brunner! Put 'em all together and you get one ca-razee comicbook! How do you describe a story like Super-Team Family #3's (November 1975) "Gorilla My Dreams!"? You don't. There are no words. You just have to experience it...

They should make this story into a movie (or at least a cartoon). And Steve Skeates should be back writing mainstream comics. 'Nuff Said!