Covers, Lanterns, and Werewolves! Oh, My!

Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago!

July 28 & 30, 1970

Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week

The Flash #237

Random Reads: "Death Waits for Moonrise" by Gill and Kim
From Haunted Love #9 (February 1975)

Black and White Wednesday: "The Corpse Rider" by Warner and Kim

Here's a wild and weird one, Groove-ophiles! Kung Fu (well, actually samurai) horror from Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #16 (July 1975) here's John Warner and Sanho Kim's..."The Corpse Rider"!

Black and White Wednesday: "Money" by Sanho Kim

While I loved the great Sanho Kim's work in Charlton's various color comics, his elegant, graceful line was always best served in Warren's black and white mags. Take the following masterpiece, "Money" from Eerie #35 (cover-dated September 1971) for example...

Black and White Wednesday: Sanho Kim's Wrong Country

Hi-YAH, Groove-ophiles! Didja know that Charlton's first attempt at a Kung Fu comic was NOT Yang? 'Tis true! When the powers-that-were at Charlton first decided to enter the martial arts arena, they handed the creative duties to the legendary Sanho Kim. Kim had been a Charlton mainstay for many moons, and his manga-esque style was thought to be perfect for their new martial arts mag. Kim went to work creating, writing, and drawing the first adventure of a young Korean martial artist for a mag that was to be called Wrong Country. According to Roger Stern's article in the third issue of Charlton Bullseye, the postal service lost the original pages for Wrong Country. Kim was in the process of moving to the U.S. making him impossible to contact as the deadline for the new comic loomed near. Fearing the deadline would be missed, editor George Wildman called on writer Joe Gill and artist Warren Sattler to create another martial arts mag--you guessed it--Yang. When Kim got to the states, it was too late to add Wrong Country to the schedule. They did give him the reins of House of Yang, which spun off from Yang (no duh!), everything turned out okay. Even for for Wrong Country. Bullseye publisher Bob Layton was eventually granted permission to publish the tale--and you, you lucky Groove-ophile, you get to read it right now!