Sergio Aragones - Groo the Wanderer (1981) pre-dates the 1st appearance!

Wow, this is historic and an awesome, incredibly detailed Groo composition!  Thanks for sharing Duke!

Oh, wow. You hit a homer with your first trip back to the plate in a while. It's Aragones style, but not quite honed it yet, which I dig even more. I'm a huge process and artistic development guy, do these types of pages really speak to me. Awesome find! Congrats 

I don't know how or where you found this but you need to go buy a lottery ticket. 

This is really quite wonderful, isn't it? Without question, an important and historic piece of Aragonés and Groo art! Although I usually dislike it when artists add the character name and/or logo to a sketch (because really, do we need to be told who the character is?), in this case it's great and adds value in terms of provenance. Now, no fool can ever say "You know, it really looks a lot like Groo, but it's still looks a bit different. I'd call this is a Groo prototype." 😂

Groo was one of the funniest books I ever read. I just loved it too!

What a great find! 

Congrats!

Sweet

Very cool!  Groo actually looks pretty serious in this early appearance!

Oh wow! I love seeing this! What a cool piece of comic history. Huge congrats!

Wow, great right from the start!

An absolute fabulous piece of art. Sergio is the best...a great artist, creator, humorist and a wonderful human being. 

Perfect one word description that I will simply echo, genius!

Fantastic --- what a find!  Love the expression on Groo here, and there is so much implied by this setup, both comical and epic, as only Aragones could conjure up.  

Groo-vy!

What a gem!

What a super, super nice piece of artwork to have in your collection.

Historically Beautiful!

Wow...wow!  It's a really nice piece, but I know how much it means to you.  Congrats!

Wow, congrats, man! Gotta be HUGE for such a big Groo fan. A great full shot that predates his first appearance - hard to top. And I like how the final look was still in process - everything's there in this image, just not polished yet!

Great drawing and the back story is just as good too. Congrats!!!!

What an awesome piece!

Outstanding... simply superb!  I also discovered Groo thanks to the Epic run in the 80’s - it was one of the few “crossover” titles my brother and I both enjoyed.  Aragones is the master of the crowd shot and “people business” but I really like how detailed / filled in the backgrounds are here.  It makes me think that I see some Stan Sakai influence or flavor in this one.  Really beautiful, historic piece - sincere congrats!

This is great!

I love seeing historic pieces like this, especially when it is a relatively unknown (or completely unknown) work of art. Thanks for sharing and major congrats!!!

A really awesone Groo drawing from 1981! What is the story behind it? Did you purchase it yourself back in 1981?

You should post some art in your caf gallery!

Love that this was already percolating in his mind ... and that it went way beyond that!!!

that's terrific, congrats