Black and White Wednesday: "Change...Into Something Comfortable" by Moench and Corben

From Creepy #58 (cover-dated December 1973), here's Doug Moench and Richard Corben's "Change...Into Something Comfortable"! AAooooooooo!

Black and White Wednesday: Creepy #58 Captain Company Ads

Welcome back to Groove City, baby! For a change of pace, howzabout we plant our peepers on a fistful of cavorting Captain Company ads from the back of Warren's Creepy #58 (November 1973)! Yeah, Ol' Groove thought you might dig that idea. There's some primo stuff in these awesome ads--including an early batch of the legendary Mego Super-Hero action figures and the legendary Heidi Saha poster and one-shot. Even my non-comicbook loving pals dug perusing the ads in the backs of Warren mags--the true "catalog for kids"!

Black and White Wednesday: Nick Cuti and Bernie Wrightson's "A Martian Saga"

Warren's Creepy #113 (cover dated November 1979) was a special Bernie Wrightson issue. Imagine, one big magazine with some of the grooviest illustrated creepy comics of all time between its covers! For today's post, Ol' Groove's chosen two (count 'em, two!) ghoulish delights from that incredible ish. First up, here's Wrightson both writing and illustrating a tale originally conceived by the immortal H.P. Lovecraft. Originally presented in Eerie #62 (cover dated January 1975), here's "Cool Air!"


Changing gears from ancient evil to science fiction, check out Wrightson's collaboration with the fabulous Nick Cuti on "A Martian Saga" (from Creepy # 87, cover dated March 1977). Enjoy!

Black and White Wednesday: "The Last Super Hero" by Cary Bates and Carmine Infantino

Here's one that comes right out of left field and knocks you upside your head, baby! From Creepy #83 (from the summer of 1976) of all places, here's a "grim and gritty" and "deconstructionist" look at superheroes that's waaay ahead of its time--and from the guys who gave us so many stories featuring Superman, Batman, and the Flash, yet! Here's "The Last Super Hero!" by Cary Bates and Carmine Infantino! Eat your hearts out, Frank, Alan, and Grant!

Black and White Wednesday: "Nightfall" by Bill DuBay and Bernie Wrightson

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! How's this for a quick post? A classic from Creepy #91 (cover dated August 1977). Story by Bill DuBay, art by Bernie Wrightson, here's..."Nightfall"!

Black and White Wednesday: "The Last Sorcerer" by Archie Goodwin and Alex Nino

Last Wednesday, we looked at Jim Starlin's "Alex Nino phase", so I thought this Wednesday we'd focus on actual Alex Nino art. I dug up a real gem for ya this time, Groove-ophiles! It's from Creepy #112 (cover-dated October, 1979) and written by the late, great Archie Goodwin (who'd made his triumphant return to Warren after his gig as editor-in-chief at Marvel). "The Last Sorcerer" is pure Nino: the "wide screen" layouts (decades before Hitch and the boys made it "kewl"); the funky-cool cross-hatch work; the weirdest worlds this side of Steve Ditko; the magnificent detail; the masterful use of negative space and spotting blacks... Groove on this, baby--it's the real thing!