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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published October 1984
Cover Price 2.00 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Groo
Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragonés
Inks Sergio Aragonés
Colors Tom Luth (?)
Reprinted in Groo - Svärdbäraren (Semic Press AB, 1989 series) #nn

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Foreword"

Script Mark Evanier
Pencils Sergio Aragonés
Inks Sergio Aragonés
Letters typeset
Notes Introduction, explaining the publishing history of this Special, including Groo art by Sergio Aragonés.

19 page Groo The Wanderer story "The Swords of Groo"

Characters Groo
Genre Humor
Script Sergio Aragonés (co-plot); Mark Evanier (co-plot & dialogue)
Pencils Sergio Aragonés
Inks Sergio Aragonés
Colors Tom Luth
Letters Stan Sakai
Notes Division of writing credit from Mark Evanier via the GCD Errors list, September 2009.
Reprinted in Groo - Svärdbäraren (Semic Press AB, 1989 series) #nn

1 page story

Characters Mark Evanier; Sergio Aragonés
Synopsis A short introduction strip, featuring Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragonés discussing the early Groo strips reprinted on the following pages.
Script Sergio Aragonés; Mark Evanier
Pencils Sergio Aragonés
Inks Sergio Aragonés
Colors Tom Luth
Letters Stan Sakai

17 page Groo The Wanderer story "The Music of Murkos!"

Characters Groo
Genre Humor
Script Sergio Aragonés (co-plot); Mark Evanier (co-plot & dialogue)
Pencils Sergio Aragonés
Inks Sergio Aragonés
Colors Tom Luth
Letters Stan Sakai
Notes Division of writing credit from Mark Evanier via the GCD Errors list, September 2009. The first ever Groo The Wanderer story, from 1977.
Reprinted in Groo - Svärdbäraren (Semic Press AB, 1989 series) #nn

4 page Groo The Wanderer activity

Characters Sergio Aragonés; Chakal; Groo; The Sage; Taranto; The Witch of Kaan; Princess Bella; Prince Canica
Genre Humor
Script Sergio Aragonés (co-plot); Mark Evanier (co-plot & dialogue)
Pencils Sergio Aragonés
Inks Sergio Aragonés
Colors Tom Luth
Letters Stan Sakai
Notes Division of writing credit from Mark Evanier via the GCD Errors list, September 2009. Cut out paper figures of Groo cast.

4 page Groo The Wanderer story "untitled"

Characters Groo
Genre Humor
Script Sergio Aragonés
Pencils Sergio Aragonés
Inks Sergio Aragonés
Colors Gordon Kent ?
Letters Sergio Aragonés
Notes Gordon Kent credit added as per Mark Evanier Error Report (September 2009). Report was for Destroyer Duck, so a ? has been added here as we don't know if same color plates were used.
Reprinted from Destroyer Duck (Eclipse, 1982 series) #1