Star Trek: The Motion Picture comic #1. Apri, 1980.
Proof of one of the following:
40 cents. Cheep.
When I was a kid I was really into Mad Magazine. (Go ahead: feign shock and surprise. I’ll wait. Done? Good.) One of my favorite recurring features was Marginal Thinking by Sergio Aragonés. I loved those tiny, detailed, crazy drawings. Imagine my delight when I saw this comic on the stands!
Groo the Wanderer started in 1981, and this Epic edition a couple of years later. In between there had been some other standalone issues, but this comic is supposed to be the first Groo tale ever written. Groo is a barbarian who is big on brawn, but absolutely lacking in the brain department. When told to go guard a bridge, he made sure the bridge didn’t fall down – while the enemy strode across unmolested. I absolutely love the detail. The fight scenes are the stuff of genius.
Check out some of the links below for more information on Groo and the folks behind the hapless barbarian: