[Groop] Where were you?

[Dana Gabbard]

You know, I think Segio was a guest at the event because of the funny gags he often draws of dinosaurs. And doesn't the first Groo storty involve a dinosaur?
 


From: garyg5678 at live.com
To: groop at groo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:43:55 -0700
Subject: Re: [Groop] Where were you?



Hi Folks!
 
My favoite story so far is Dana's.  What the heck was a stack of Groo comics doing at a table at a dinosaur show at the county museum?  Fascinating.  
 
My story is different from most, not all that interesting really, but here goes:  I hadn't read comics or MAD since the early 70's.  By that time I had (at least to my way of thinking) outgrown Archie & Uncle Scrooge, and gotten bored with soap opera-ish quality of the superhero comics I had liked.  (Not surprisingly, Hulk was my favorite. Wanton destruction has always had an appeal.)  My primary entertainment reading was the Conan paperbacks.  
 
My brother was an avid reader of comics, mostly the dark ones like Grendel, so he was up on the comic book scene.  He heard about Groo, knew I was an old MAD fan and a Conan fan, thought a MAD cartoonist's take on sword and scorcery stories would be something I'd enjoy, so he got me a subscription for a Christmas present.  My first issue was Epic #3.  I loved it of course, but for the first 10 years I was pretty much a "normal" fan. 
 
Then around 1995 I saw Groo on the cover of an old Marvel Age and thought it would be fun to try and find every publication in which Groo had appeared.  Little did I realize...  Shortly after that, something snapped...and, well, here I am.  
 
Gary G.
 
PS  The Long Suffering Mrs. G. has never forgiven my brother.  I don't think he's forgiven himself either.    
 
 

 


From: dgabbard at hotmail.com
To: ryan.gsimmons at gmail.com; groop at groo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:16:15 +0000
Subject: Re: [Groop] Where were you?



At a dinosaur show at the L.A. County Museum of Natural History. They had a table with the early issues of Groo and I begged the woman staffing it to let me buy a set. And I was hooked. Must have been just after the first issue was published--1983?
 


Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:21:59 -0500
From: ryan.gsimmons at gmail.com
To: Groop at groo.com
Subject: Re: [Groop] Where were you?

1985 in the small comic book rack of a tiny, tiny grocery store that didn't even have central AC..  Epic/Marvel 1.  Unsurprisingly the store burned to the ground a few years later and nothing has yet to be rebuilt on that spot.


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Shawn Moore <uslgrad at hotmail.com> wrote:


It was in 1990 at the nearby news stand where I first gazed upon Groo.  I had just started working at a baseball card shop and was going get refreshments at the local news stand when there it was, Groo the Wanderer.  I've been cursed ever since with the drive to acquire Groo.



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