GROO THE WANDERER Sergio Aragones 1982

In April 1982 Sergio Aragones graciously consented to do a signing tour thru my Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa Best of Two Worlds comic book stores. While pausing for a lunch break near rhe Santa Rosa store, Dean Mullaney and Cat Yronwode joined us per Sergio's request.

Sergio then proceeded to draw this beautiful full page rendition in ink without pencil prelims as he is so famously prone to do of his now famous character for us while he shopped the particulars of what Eclipse Comics might have to offer him.

This is one of the earliest versions of what Pacific Comics nine months later published in Dec 1982. When PC went down after just six issues in this series, Eclipse was tapped to publish a "special" before Groo went on for a long run at Marvel Comics.