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I think Joe Kubert might be my favorite artist pre-1980, along with Jim Aparo and Ross Andru.
 
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I've always thought the art on this one was cool. But also, the "#80 in a Four Issue Limited Series" at the top is always what seals it for me.
 
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David Johansen said:
Groo gave me one of my favorite analogies. He wanders into the burning wreck of a village and thinks, "That's funny, I don't recall helping this place before." It's a great way to understand how forcing 'help' on people actually works.
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I can easily hear most Player Characters saying something like that.
 
Oh yeah, I loved the Super-Villain Team Up series. Lot's of fun. But on that sort of theme, I cannot recommend enough the mini-series "Dr Doom and the Master of Evil" by Paul Tobin.
 
I have super dim memories of this one. It has been popping into my head for a while making me wonder, "what was that comic book?" Initially, all I could recall was that the character was small, maybe a child, and there was a scene where he went to sleep in the lap of the Lincoln Monument in order to sleep on a problem.

After straining my few remaining brain cells, I narrowed the timeframe down to late 70s, somewhere between 77 and 80. Whenever I tried to think of the title or the character the word "whiz" kept on coming to mind.

And that was enough for the internet, because I managed to find O.G. Whiz #8 by Gold Key Comics. It seems it was originally published in 1971 and then reprinted in 1978.

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Not a great or even good comic book by any stretch, but thanks to that one scene it has been living rent free in my memory for well over 4 decades.

I remember I got the comic off a circular rack at the grocery store. I think I might have picked up a Battlestar Galactica comic at the same time, but if so then this comic languished on that rack for close to a year. This silly little book may have been the absolute first comic book I ever owned.
 
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