Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!
Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week
Groovy Age Spotlight On...Splashes from Iconic Groovy Age Comics!
Covers! We love 'em! Many, many, many fans buy comics based on (and often just for) the covers. BUT...many, many of us dig the insides, too! So, Ol' Groove thought it'd be a cool change of pace to revisit some of my favorite (you can share your favorites in the comments if'n ya wanna) "iconic" Groovy Age mags via their splashes instead of their covers! So, here are 10 splashes from comics that slayed me, one per year from 1970-1979 (yeah, I could've done 1971-1980, or whatever, but... whatever! ;D) Remember: these are from comics are iconic to ME. They may not mean a thing to you, but that's the fun of lists like this: deciding whether to applaud or slap your forehead and wonder "Why'd he pick THAT one?" Oh, and it's not necessarily the splashes that are iconic, but the books that they, well, splash on. Have fun, Groove-ophiles!
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| 1970/Jack Kirby/Vinnie Colletta art |
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| 1971 |
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| 1972 |
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| 1973/Detective Comics #437 |
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| 1974 |
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| 1975/Mike Grell art |
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| 1976/Superman vs Spider-Man |
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| 1977/Marvel Super Special #1 |
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| 1978/Micronauts #1 |
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| 1979/Daredevil #159/Frank Miller/Klaus Janson art |
Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!
Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week
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| Iron Man #119 |
Groovy Age Spotlight On... John Byrne's Avengers Fill-In Issues 164-166!
July 6th was John Byrne's birthday so let's celebrate, Groove-ophiles! While his Groovy Age work on
X-Men, Marvel Team-Up, Iron Fist, Rog-200,
Doomsday +1, Marvel Two-In-One, and
Starlord is most celebrated, leave us not forget that he had a suh-weet run on
Avengers (issues 181-191) that actually stemmed from a trio of far-out fill-in issues that he did on issues 164-166! Those three issues that ran from July-September 1977 absolutely rocked! Credit-where-credit's due: Jim Shooter turned out a whale of a storyline that allowed Byrne to strut his stuff (and regular inker Pablo Marcos gave Byrne's pencils a different, but cool, vibe than what we'd seen before) with some amazing action scenes against
The Lethal Legion (
Power Man, Living Laser, and
Whirlwind) and a super-powered
Count Nefaria (playing the part of
Superman-gone-wrong). While we loved our regular penciler at the time, George Perez, methinks not too many fans were disappointed during this titanic trilogy of incredible fill-in issues! Dig this sampling of Ol' Groove's fave pages from each issue...and Happy Birthday, John Byrne!
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!
