[Groop] Groo by the Numbers

[Gary Grossmann]

Hi Folks!

Well, Mark's request for Groo page counts got me to dig up some documents I hadn't looked at in awhile and which had not survived electronically. 
I had created a rather unwieldy spreadsheet that had things broken down by the number of Groo story pages, Sage story pages, etc., how many times recurring characters appeared and in what issues, stuff like that. I had a hard copy of this, as well as another documents that had titles and page counts, so I was able to put something together to send to Mark on an excel spreadsheet pretty quickly with most of the info he asked for. 

I separated the full length stories and shorts and naturally I made a goof and put a couple short stories in the intro. page column. But Mark's a smart guy and had input from other folks, and he said he got everything he needed so it all worked out. (Plus there were no stories with 5 Intro pages, as any fool can plainly see.) 

So anywho, that got me to want to recreate my page count spreadsheet for all Groo comics and with Arturo updating the Groo wiki sight it seemed like good timing. I am done with the easy part, which is reconstructing the count of the pages inside the Groo comics and other publications with original Groo stories plus back cover stuff (Rufferto's plus the back of #100.) 

Here are the totals:

      3844
     143
     54
     67
     48
     4156
     
         Full Length Groo Stories 
         *Shorts
         *Intro. Pages
     *Rufferto
        Puzzle  Other
           Total 
     

These are the totals for 156 Groo comics, 1 Special, 2 graphic novels, and 7 short stories, one of which was in Groo Chronicles #5. It also includes the 6 Ruffertos that were on the back of the 6 Groo Chronicles. It does not include any covers or any original pages in reprint publications (other than the 6 Ruffertos and the one original short story) It also doesn't include a couple other things that I think Sergio & Mark would agree shouldn't be counted. 

Anywho, the Covers pages count and the original art that in reprints count get tricky and complicated. More on that later. This is too long already. 

Take care all -Gary G. 
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