The Grooviest Covers of All Time: George Tuska

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! When fans of the Groovy Age think of George Tuska, we think of Iron Man, Teen Titans, and lots and lots of fill-ins. George is one of those journeymen who'd been around since the Golden Age and we just (sadly) kinda took him for granted. I never personally went out of my way looking for a George Tuska book, but I was rarely disappointed when I bought a mag George had penciled. He had the trademark Marvel powerful figures and in-your-face action-packed layouts down pat. Another thing George could do, but didn't get nearly enough opportunities to do so, t'would sadly seem, is create some outstanding and even iconic covers! Just check out this Marvel-ous offering of Tuska covers...

Gracias to the Grand Comics Database for the awesome cover scans!

Science Fiction Theater: The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Here's Marvel's adaptation of the 1958 classic Seventh Voyage of Sinbad from Marvel Spotlight #25 (September 1975). Yeah, it seems a bit weird that they were adapting such an old movie. Maybe their adaptation of Golden Voyage of Sinbad sold so well they wanted to give Sinbad another try. Whatever the story behind the story might be, the fact is that John Warner and Sonny Trinidad turned out a pretty cool comic, in spite of having to adapt an entire movie into a mere 18 pages. Notice the experimental text/art pages (something Steve Gerber toyed with a few times) used to speed things up. Comicbook dudes gotta do what comicbook dudes gotta do, right? Dig it, baby!

Warriors and Wizards Week! Science Fiction Theater: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Sinbad the Sailor, star of an ancient Middle Eastern cycle of tales made famous in Sir Richard Burton's 1885 The Book of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Volume 6, could possibly be considered one of the grandfathers of the Sword and Sorcery genre. Throughout the 1970s, Marvel Comics proved quite skillful at adapting popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) flicks into comicbook form. So in honor of our

Warriors and Wizards Week

celebration, Ol' Groove thought it'd be kinda cool to share Len Wein, George Tuska, and Vinnie Colletta's adaptation of Columbia Pictures' Golden Voyage of Sinbad. "Freely adapted from Brian Clemens' screenplay", this adaptation by writer Wein and artists Tuska and Colletta does a nice job of capturing the spirit of the movie (which was a hit with the kids at Fairfield West Elementary and eventually reached cult-status, especially since it featured such geek-cult stars as John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, and Caroline Munro--not to mention the far-out stop-motion wizardry of the immortal Ray Harryhausen) in the mere 38 pages Marvel allowed. While it's not "...in the miracle of Dynarama" it is "...In the Epic Tradition of Conan!", so what more d'ya want? From Worlds Unknown #s 7-8 (March-May, 1974), here's "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad!"