Groo vs. Conan #1

(July 2014)

Sergio Aragonés Groo vs. Conan (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Sergio Aragonés; Tom Yeates

Inks

Sergio Aragonés; Tom Yeates

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The most heroic warrior in history meets the stupidest as Robert E. Howard's immortal Conan the Barbarian crosses swords with Sergio Aragonés Groo the Wanderer.

Characters

Groo; Conan; Rufferto; Conan's horse; townspeople (Groo's world)

Synopsis

Introduction and credits for the issue.

Keywords

credits; introduction

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside front cover.

[Groo vs. Conan: Chapter One] (Table of Contents: 2)

Conan; Groo the Wanderer / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (credited); Mark Evanier (credited)

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés (credited); Tom Yeates (credited as Thomas Yeates)

Inks

Sergio Aragonés (credited); Tom Yeates (credited as Thomas Yeates)

Colors

Tom Luth (credited)

Letters

Richard Starkings (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The beast would have its way... as beasts so often do.

Genre

adventure; humor; sword and sorcery

Characters

Groo; Conan; Conan's horse; Rufferto; Sergio Aragonés; Mark Evanier; woman in distress (Conan’s world); wizard (Conan’s world); various townspeople of Groo’s world; bakers (Groo’s world); Benjy (comic book shop owner); various pro-comic book shop protesters; various Los Angeles police; various ambulance and hospital personnel; nurse; doctor; king's corrupt prime minister (Groo’s world); king's soldiers (Groo’s world); peasant (Conan’s world); wench (Conan’s world); wine-pouring woman (Conan’s world); inn patrons (Conan’s world)

Synopsis

In three seemingly unrelated segments, Conan defeats a wizard who uses “a man’s deepest horrors from his soul” against him. Sergio and Mark come upon a comic book shop being threatened with demolition by a greedy developer and his lawyer. Groo comes upon a bakery being threatened with demolition by a greedy king and his prime minister, and (inadvertently?) joins the king’s army. Sergio falls into a delirium and fancies himself as Conan, running about in an open-ended hospital gown. The townspeople of Groo’s world journey to Conan’s world and appeal to Conan to vanquish the dread monster Groo.

Reprints

• in Groo vs. Conan (Dark Horse, 2015 series) (April 2015)

Keywords

character crossover; comic book shop; different worlds; historical setting; meta humor; series of mishaps; wreaking havoc

Indexer Notes

The story unfolds among three very different worlds... the "real" world of comic book shops, greedy developers, and city parks, Groo's world (both cartoon-illustrated by Sergio Aragonés), and Conan's world (realistically illustrated by Thomas Yeates) - with a band of peasants from Groo's world crossing over into Conan's world.

The "border" between Groo’s world and Conan’s world, which the venturous peasants cross, is expertly delineated with defining characteristics of each incongruously, but steadfastly, adjacent to one another on story page 5, panel 3.

The peasants comment on this phenomenon on story page 21, panel 3.
PEASANT 1: "Do you not notice how odd is the foliage? How it looks nothing like the lands we know?"
PEASANT 2: "Stranger and stranger..."

Text Page (Table of Contents: 3)

Groo the Wanderer / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Mark Evanier (signed)

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Look, we tried to stop it. Honest, we did.

Genre

humor; sword and sorcery

Synopsis

Mark explains how they tried to stop, or at least postpone this series.

Keywords

background information

[Meat and Greet] (Table of Contents: 4)

Rufferto / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (signed as Aragonés); Mark Evanier

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés (signed as Aragonés)

Inks

Sergio Aragonés (signed as Aragonés)

Colors

Tom Luth

Feature Logo

Rufferto [lower-case letters]

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Rufferto; Groo; panicked butcher

Synopsis

Rufferto uses Groo to scare-up some meat.

Reprints

• in Groo vs. Conan (Dark Horse, 2015 series) (April 2015)

Keywords

butcher; dog; hunger; ingenuity; meat; medieval setting; sword; trickery

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Color on back cover.