One of the blogs I've recently added to the blogroll is
DIVERSIONS OF A GROOVY KIND, a comics blog that celebrates comics magazines of the 1970's. This week "The Groovy Agent" is
showcasing the big B&W Martial Arts magazines of the period.
Many of you won't recall these, but on 1970's newsstands there were a plethora of B&W large size comics and article magazines designed to capitalize on the 'adult' path Warren magazines explored. We had DOC SAVAGE, CONAN, INCREDIBLE HULK, BIZARRE ADVENTURES; I, ZOMBIE ; TOMB OF DRACULA and others that fit outside the norms of comic publishing. In many cases I would say they were '
pulp comics.'
In any case, I thought you'd want to take a look at these and maybe kick Marvel and the other companies into stepping up their
ESSENTIALS series so you can get and enjoy these lurid, colorful (yet B&W) tales.
