25 March 2018

Groovy Grass

Okay. I promised more Grass Green and those early fanzine parody strips, and Sunday Funnies seems like a fair place to drop them. Seeing Roy Thomas's  Bestest League Of America comics inspired Grass and ignited his passion for comics.
So, only 3 issues after Bestest League wrapped up in Alter Ego, Da Frantic Four* appeared -


Not long after, over at Komix Illustrated...


It didn't stop after Grass turned pro, either. He got to draw his version of the Bestest League of America and have a Marvelous time, too, for Go-Go Comics -


Damn shame we lost Green just as the world was beginning to rediscover him in this century.

art by Grass Green from Alter Ego #6, Komix Ilustrated #13, and Go-Go Comics #6 (1963, 1965, 1967)


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*(Da Frantic Four was actually inspired by The Frantic Four, a single panel toon by Ronn Foss that ran in The Comicollector #8:

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