A READER'S GUIDE TO SWORD & SORCERY
GROO THE WANDERER (1982-PRESENT)
Sergio's rendition of himself and Mark Evanier In
1982 the Groo comics began to appear with the very first being a back-up feature
for Destroyer Duck
#1 (1982) and then another for Starslayer
#5 (November 1982). Groo's first title was with Pacific Comics' Groo
the Wanderer (December 1982-March 1984).
He switched to Eclipse for The Groo the Wanderer
Special (October 1984). "Groo the Wanderer"
appeared in Epic Illustrated
#27 (December 1984) to promote the next version of Groo, Marvel's Groo
the Wanderer (March 1985-January 1995). Marvel's Epic line put out the
one-shot Special The Death of Groo in 1987.
In 1994 Image comics shortened it to Groo (December
1994-November 1995). Graphiti Designs published The
Life of Groo (1995). Dark Horse picked up the strip in 1998 and published
in 4 part mini-series with Groo (January-April
1998), Groo and Rufferto (December 1998-March
1999), Mightier Than the Sword (January-April
2000), Death & Taxes (December 2001-April
2002), Hell on Earth (November 2007 - April
2008), The Hogs of Horder (December 2009-March
2010). Marvel then Dark Horse reprinted comics in
The Groo Chronicles #1-6 (1989) then alphabetically B to O: The Groo Bazaar
(1991), The Groo Carnival (December 1991), The Groo Dynasty
(August 1992), The Groo Expose (February 1993), The Groo Festival (August
1993), The Groo Garden (April 1994), The Most Intelligent Man in the
World (1998), The Groo Houndbook (1999), The Groo Inferno (1999),
The Groo Jamboree (2000), The Groo Kingdom (2001), The Groo Library
(2001), The Groo Maiden (2001), The Groo Nursery (2002), and
The Groo Odyssey (2003). A 25th Annivesary Special
was published in August 2007. The most recent was a special one dollar comic
called One-For-One (September 2010). More Groo
is certainly in the works.       
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