| Mike Grell |
| | Born | 1947
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Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. His entry into the comics industry was in 1972, as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip. Entrance sign Weidner Center The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (also known as UW-Green Bay, UWGB or GB) is a public university located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System. ...
Famous Artists School has offered correspondence courses in art since it was founded in 1948 in Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. The idea was conceived by Albert Dorne as a result of a conversation with Norman Rockwell. ...
Dale Messick (born April 11, 1906) is an American comic strip creator. ...
Brenda Starr is a comic strip about the title character, a glamorous, adventurous reporter. ...
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Career Beginning: Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
In 1973 Grell moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. His first assignment at DC was on Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (SATLOSH), a high profile assignment for an artist with no prior experience illustrating a monthly comic book. Grell says he got that job because he was walking in the editor's door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist was walking out the door, having just quit. These stories were written by Cary Bates and Jim Shooter. The Bates/Grell/Shooter run on the title is very well-regarded today by Superboy/Legion fans, who consider it one of the high water marks in the character/team's history. Grell's work on SATLOSH is widely thought to be some of the best beefcake/cheesecake fest ever committed to comic book pages, and is affectionately referred to as the 'disco legion' in retrospect, by fans of the title. This article is about the state. ...
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The Warlord
 The cover of The Warlord #67. Art by Mike Grell. Becoming a writer as well as artist, Grell cemented his status as a fan-favorite with his best-known creation The Warlord, one of the first sword and sorcery comics and reportedly the best-selling title published by DC Comics in the late-1970s. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (520x789, 771 KB) Copyright DC Comics, artist Mike Grell, Warlord #67 This image is of the cover of a single issue of a comic book, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic...
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The Warlord was a sword and sorcery comic book published by DC Comics from 1976 - 1989. ...
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The character first appeared in 1st Issue Special #8 (Nov. 1975) and was soon given his own, ongoing title (The Warlord #1, cover date January/February 1976). In this book, Air Force pilot Travis Morgan crash lands in the prehistoric "hidden world" of Skartaris (highly influenced by Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar). Thereafter for years he engages in adventures dressed only in a winged helmet, wristbands, boots and breechclout, armed with a sword and (years before Dirty Harry picked one up) a .44 Auto Mag. First Issue Special was a short-lived anthology series from DC Comics, done in similar style to their Showcase series. ...
Skartaris is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by comic book writer/artist Mike Grell for his sword and sorcery comic book Warlord, published from 1976-1989. ...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. ...
Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. ...
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At DC, Grell also worked on titles such as Aquaman, Batman, and the Phantom Stranger, and with writer Dennis O'Neil on the re-launch of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series in 1976. Aquaman is a fictional character, superhero in DC Comics. ...
Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...
The Phantom Stranger is a fictional character of unspecified paranormal origins who battles mysterious and occult forces in various titles published by DC Comics, sometimes under their Vertigo imprint. ...
Dennis Denny ONeil is a comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of books until his retirement. ...
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Tarzan Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19, 1981 to February 27, 1983 (except for one strip, February 13, 1983, by Thomas Yeates). These strips were rerun in newspapers in 2004 - 2005. For other uses, see Tarzan (disambiguation). ...
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Thomas Yeates is an American comic book and comic strip artist especially known for his work on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs and on the Zorro comic strip. ...
First Comics: Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer
 Cover to Jon Sable Freelance #7. Art by Mike Grell. Through the 1980s Grell developed creator-owned titles such Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer. Jon Sable Freelance was published by the now defunct First Comics. Starslayer, a spaceborn science fiction series, started at Pacific Comics before shifting to First. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Jon Sable:Freelance was one of the very first titles created for the fledging First Comics back in 1983. ...
Starslayer was a comic book series published starting in 1982 by American writer and artist Mike Grell starring the time-displaced Celtic warrior Torin MacQuillon. ...
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The titular character of Jon Sable Freelance was a former Olympic athlete and then African big game hunter who became a mercenary. First appearing with a cover date of June 1983, Jon Sable Freelance was a successful non-super-hero comic book in an era when successful non-super-hero comic books were almost unheard-of, and a graphically violent comic sold in mainstream comic book stores in an era when such was also almost unheard-of. Jon Sable was a precursor to what would eventually be called, by some, "the Dark Age of Comics" when even long-established super-heroes would become increasingly grim and violent.
The character was heavily influenced by Ian Fleming's James Bond novels as well as drawing on pulp fiction crime stories. Also, many of the stories of Sable's hunting exploits in Africa were influenced by Peter Hathaway Capstick's novels. At a convention in the late 1980s, Grell stated that his idea for Sable was "something like a cross between James Bond and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer." Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. ...
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Peter Hathaway Capstick (1940-1996) was a famous hunter and author. ...
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. ...
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Sable was adapted into a short-lived television series and the character's origin tale, "A Storm Over Eden" from the comic book was expanded and novelized by Grell under the title Sable which was published in 2000 by Tor Books.
Back at DC: Green Arrow
 Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1. Mike Grell's gritty redefinition of Green Arrow. Painted cover by Grell. In 1987, Mike Grell wrote and drew the 3-issue prestige format limited series Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters. He redesigned the character's costume, away from the costume Neal Adams had designed in 1969, and recast Green Arrow as an "urban hunter" going up against non-super-powered, real world villains such as serial killers, terrorists, street gangs, American mobsters and Japanese Yakuza. Of note, thinking "Green Arrow" was "a stupid name", in none of Mike Grell's Green Arrow stories is the character ever called "Green Arrow" anywhere but on the cover. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (400x608, 70 KB)Cover of Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1 This image is the cover of an individual issue of a comic book. ...
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Grell did away with Green Arrow's arsenal of "trick arrows" and instead rearmed him with penetrating broadheads with which he actually killed his opponents. Longbow Hunters showed the first instance in which Green Arrow ever deliberately killed someone - in the follow-on series this occurred frequently.
The popularity of Longbow Hunters led to an assignment writing - and occasionally drawing - a relaunched Green Arrow series for 80 issues from 1988 to 1998. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this comics-related article or section may require cleanup. ...
James Bond Grell wrote and illustrated a three-part James Bond mini-series, Permission to Die, and authored the graphic novel adaptation of the Timothy Dalton Bond film Licence to Kill, both published by Eclipse Comics. 007 redirects here. ...
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Timothy Peter Dalton (born March 21, 1946[1]) is an English actor of stage and screen, best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989) and in his roles in Shakespearean related films and plays. ...
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Marvel Comics: Iron Man Most recently Grell has written and drawn Iron Man for Marvel Comics. It was during Grell's run that Iron Man chose to reveal his secret identity as Tony Stark to the world, a plot twist met with mixed fan reaction. For the upcoming film and video game based on the superhero, see Iron Man (film) and Iron Man (video game). ...
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Artwork Mike Grell's artwork is distinctive and highly detailed, with a scratchboard-like feel. Conversely, his writing is tight and minimalistic, often letting his art speak for itself during action sequences. He is renowned for his ability to draw very beautiful women - see for instance the scantily-clad Saturn Girl during his run on Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes in the seventies. The men he drew almost invariably had the physical development of Olymic decathlethes or middle-distance runners, unlike those drawn by the majority of comic-book artists of the day, whose physiques resembled those of chemically enhanced professional bodybuilders. Like many artists entering comic books in the 1970s, Grell's early artwork in particular showed a strong Neal Adams influence, but underwent a significant change in a single stroke when he discovered the works of Joseph Clement Coll and Paul Calle ("The Pencil"). The change can be seen dramatically in the difference between the covers for Jon Sable Freelance #1 and #2. Grell is an avid big-game hunter, which serves as an influence on his artwork and story lines, particularly in the Jon Sable Freelance series. Chinese Jade ornament with flower design, Jin Dynasty (1115-1234 AD), Shanghai Museum. ...
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Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes is the title of a DC animated series to debut in fall 2006 or spring 2007. ...
Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American comic book and commercial artist best known for his highly naturalistic style of illustration. ...
Joseph Clement Coll (1881-1921) was an American newspaper and book illustrator. ...
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Grell currently lives in Washington state with his wife, Lauri, noted horsewoman and creator of the EQUUEST (tm) system of equine communication. For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ...
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