Non-Verbal In The Groovy Age

As mentioned recently, we'll be lingering for a bit in what i term the "Groovy Age" (about a half dozen years on either side of 1968). I'm kind of wiped from a number of things, including working on transforming the blog so we can drop the adult warning. Progress is good, by the way - all of last year's posts are cleared and currently started on January posts. That's left me feeling a bit non-verbal, so let's just go with that.

Purely visual diversions from some of those groovy age publications -

 

i said non-verbal. if you wants to know, asks

Living In The Groovy Age

It's hard to imagine what life was like back at the peak of the counterculture revolution.
Fortunately, dedicated professionals Warren Harvey and Hy Eisman recorded the experience for us 50 years ago this month...

Just like being there!

Our slice of the groovy life comes to us from March, 1968, in issue #4 of Bunny -

Yeah, man - Harvey & Eisman were some groovy cats.

Yvoorg Nam from Bunny #4 (1968)

Because Black Eye Was A Safer Pun

We looked at Super Soul American last week in our Road To Wakanda post. He was the lead feature of Super Soul Comix and a superhero, so he seemed the more appropriate choice. But there's greener Grass on the other side of the fence in the back of that book. (Yes, that's a terribly weak way to work creator Richard "Grass" Green into the conversation. Maybe it'll get edited out and you won't have to suffer it) As you may or may not have noticed in the previous post, Super Soul American shared the cover of the book:

The guy on the left is the Black Eye - Eric Private. Green seems a bit more relaxed and having more fun with the character in this tale, or perhaps it's just that he made me have more fun while reading it...

NOTE: On this page our hero learns that Kathy is actually

NOT jail-bait, being 23 years old, and this page

has been moved to our back room for adult content.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive
of the original post to view the artwork.  

This leaves me even more curious to find what other works from Green are hiding out there waiting to be discovered...

the works by Grass Green for Super Soul Comix #1 (1972)

Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle DD

Just in case (not to be confused with Justin Case - Lawyer to the Super-Heroes) you notice something odd happening around the site in coming days, a note of explanation.

I've come to realize that including adult content causes this site to not be indexed by the search engines. Given that many of the posts here are geared toward folks in the future seeking information or spotlighting odd and rare things that might be hard for seekers to find, this seems to be what is generally known as "a bad thing." It does no good to shine a light on forgotten things if that light is locked in a closet.

I've decided to do something about that, and soon this will no longer be an adult labelled blog. Don't worry, that doesn't mean getting rid of anything, nor restricting future content. And it doesn't mean lying to the poor suckers who stumble in by accident. But it does mean that quirky things might happen in the near future while i'm working.

What's happening is that i'm moving all of the adult oriented material to The Other Voice Of ODD! and replacing the entries here with pointers and content indicators. Once it's all sorted, the two blogs will act as a single entity - essentially adding a "back room" for adult content. but there's a fair bit of work involved with sorting and cross-linking, and sometimes Google/Gmail/Blogger hates me. So, we'll see how it goes but we hope for smooth and easy.

Cross those extraneous digits and spill a little wine for the house gods as we undertake the move. You'll know it's all taken care of when you no longer have to click past a content warning to visit.

Blue Matinee

We're continuing our theme from the weekend in this edition of

If you weren't here, we've been doing Doppelcomix - imitations of the originals that copy art styles as well as the famous characters. We've got a Triple Feature and a bonus short for our matinee today - not quite Prince Valiant, Superman & Wonder Woman, and Flash Gordon - all brought to us by one of the old masters of the industry - Wally Wood.

NOTE: Wally's sporting serious wood today,

with all comics containing graphic sex & nudity.

The artwork has been moved to our 'back room'

for adult content following the site restructuring.

Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive
of the original post to view the artwork.

Our features, primarily coming from the second issue of Wally Wood's Gang Bang, are presented in the above billed order, with the bonus short following our final feature.
Bring Your Own Snacks.

features by Wally Wood from Gang Bang #2(1981)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 10

Pretty Cagey is this week's Gil Elvgren painting from 1953 -

Sonday Matinee

Let's follow up yesterday afternoon's odd parody matinee with more doppelcomix from the same era.

We've got a double feature at the matinee today. Get your superhero fix with a 'classic' 70s GL/GA tale, but first - ever wonder how it would have gone for Sgt. Rock in Vietnam?

NOTE: Most pages of Green Lampburn/Green Airhole contain nudity
and our 2nd story has been moved to our back room for adult content.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive
of the original post to view the artwork. 

Sgt. Jock by Scott Judge for Dopin' Dan #1, GL/GA by Jim Pinoski for Spaced #1 (1973, 1974)

Sunday Morning Trip

50 years back in 1968 was the focal point of the counter cultural revolution. It was the biggest societal shift in this country, among others, perhaps foreshadowing days to come. We'll see.

I'm going to step on someone else's toes (Hiya, Groovy! Welcome to the blog roll) and label the period of about a half dozen years on either side of '68 as The Groovy Age. I'll be hanging out there for a fair bit on my regular cultural archeology digs, and we'll be seeing a lot of it here. That's already started, as you may have noted, but i figured we should shove it out to center stage and hit the spotlights.

And so, for our Sunday Morning Funnies we're boarding the Groove Train and cruising on back through the odd times...

NOTE: This comic merely contains plump cartoon nudity
but still has been moved to our back room for adult content, 

as well as the next-to-last panel above being slightly censored.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive
of the original post to view the artwork.  

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