Those Groovy Saturday Mornings: More Mighty Mightor and Birdman

More far-out fun from Hanna-Barbera TV Super-Heroes #5 (January 1969), Groove-ophiles! Check out the action with Mighty Mightor and Birdman. Don't touch that dial!

Grooviest Covers of All Time: More Steranko Phase II

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! More Jim Steranko covers from 1972/73. You don't wanna read my rappin', you wanna groove to these far-out covers. Go for it, baby!

Thursday Triple-Play: Forgotten Shockers from Archie's Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine #2

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! We've rapped about the legendary Archie's Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine #2 (Summer 1979) before, but did'ja ever realize that there are some decidedly non-super hero tales in that mouthful-of-a-title mag? Mixed in with the Black Hood greatness and the far-out fun of the Mighty Comics and Archie-and-his-pals-as-superheroes is a trio of terror tales by Wally Wood, Tom Defalco, Chic Stone, and Jesse Santos. I am not jivin' ya, baby! Check 'em out!

Black and White Wednesday: The Origin of Jim Starlin's Darklon

What's happening, Groove-ophiles! It's been way too long since we got down with Jim Starlin's Darklon the Mystic, so Ol' Groove's gonna lay the Mystic One's origin on ya today! I mentioned in my last Darklon post that creator/writer/artist Jim Starlin was going through some heavy stuff during his post-Warlock days, and Darklon seemed to be a way for the most cosmic writer-artist of all to work through it. Many adjectives could be used to describe this trippy two-parter from Warren's Eerie #'s 79-80 (cover-dated November 1976-January 1977)--sinister, sadistic, and stunning being a choice few. WARNING! This is Starlin at his most savage--neither "The Price!" nor "Retribution" is recommended for the faint of heart!



Starlin dug this gruesome sacrifice-to-power origin so much that he'd use a similar bloody path for Vanth Dreadstar's pal Syzygy Darklok in his 1981 graphic novel titled, not surprisingly, The Price.