Team-up Week! Thursday Team-ups: "The Gravity War!" by Conway, Edelman, Jones, and Tanghal

Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Another day, another day of Team-up Week! Today we're wrapping up the Supergirl/Doom Patrol team-up from Superman Family! "The Gravity War!" plotted by Gerry Conway, scripted by Scott Edelman, and illustrated by Arvell Jones and Romeo Tanghal appeared in Superman Family #193 (October 1978)...

Thursday Team-ups: "What Goes Up...Can't Come Down" by Conway, Jones, and Tanghal

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! It's part two of our Supergirl/Doom Patrol team-up (though this part doesn't feature much DP) by Gerry Conway, Arvell Jones, and Romeo Tanghal! "What Goes Up...Can't Come Down" first appeared in Superman Family #192 (August 1978).

Part three next week. Miss it not!

Thursday Team-Ups: "A Matter of Gravity" by Conway, Jones, and Tanghal

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! When the All-New Doom Patrol finished their three-part Showcase intro (issues 94-96, check 'em out here, here, and here) who'd'a thunk their next appearance would involve them teaming up with Supergirl! S'truth! At the beginning of the DC Explosion, June 1978, the All-New DP teamed with the Maid of Might in her berth in Superman Family (ish #191, to be exact). Now, this ten-pager by Gerry Conway, Arvell Jones, and Romeo Tanghal was, Ol' Groove strongly suspects, was to have been part of a 34 page ish of Super-Team Family, based on the fact that the story runs 32 pages all totaled through ish 193 and the writer/art team was the regular writer/art team on STF. STF was cancelled when DC went to it's all-fourty-four pages for fifty cent line, so a little creative editing made for a pretty smooth transition from STF to SMF. Only hadda change one letter! (I kill me sometimes!)

Fun fact for moi: Teen Groove bought this ish of Superman Family off the spinner rack the very same Friday evening he went with the fam to see Grease on the big screen! Sandy!

Groove's Faves: "Defection!" by P. Kupperberg, Staton, and Patterson

We're back with the grand finale of Paul Kupperberg and Joe Staton's Doom Patrol try-out/revival in Showcase, Groove-ophiles! Part three, "Defection!", was originally published in Showcase #96 (September 1977), and was it a doozy! A battle royale with The Cossack, a guest appearance from Swamp Thing's Matt Cable, a Jim Aparo cover, and a look at the early inking wizardry of Bruce D. Patterson! Enjoy, baby!

Groove's Faves: "The Origin of Celsius" by Kupperberg, Staton, and Chiarmonte

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Y'know, when Ol' Groove was working on last week's Metal Men post, something in the back of my mind kept naggin' at me. Turns out, my brain was trying to tell the rest of me that I'd done a post on DC's 1977 Doom Patrol revamp in Showcase #94 back in August (you can read it here)--and then never followed up with another DP post! Well, it's time t'fix that! Here's Paul (Life With Archie, Charlton Arrow) Kupperberg and Joe (Dick Tracy, E-Man) Staton (with inker Frank Chiarmonte) with the second part of their Doom Patrol revival! From Showcase #95 (July 1977), mysteries deepen and some are solved (well, sorta) in "The Origin of Celsius"!

Cover art by Jim Aparo