Remembering (the still very much alive) Mike Grell

[mrbrklyn]

I always felt this was the best Mike Grell Cover I ever saw.

[Elmo]

shit dude I thought he died or something

[OBrianTallent]

Thread title made me think he had passed away! My heart dropped!

[Lee Stone]

(Edited. Yay! He's still alive!)
Grell's Green Arrow was probably the benchmark for the character for the longest time.
And Warlord was one of DC's longest running titles.

[Assam]

Sorry to hear this.
Grell's Green Arrow was probably the benchmark for the character for the longest time.
And Warlord was one of DC's longest running titles.

Grell is fine. The OP just worded their title very poorly.

[Thanos]

Ya Bastich!! I thought he died!!! My heart sank. I'm glad he's still alive. My favorite Grell cover is Green Arrow #40.

[skyvolt2000]

shit dude I thought he died or something

You aren't the only one...

I met him a few times and got his book Sable signed.

[Lightning Rider]

A thread title change is probably best.

[Kaled]

Like many I was worried when I saw this but glad he is still around. I was looking at a few of my art of George Perez books and getting to order the new artbook of Jim Starlin when I saw this and it made me wonder has there ever been an Art of Mike Grell book?

[Güicho]

Yes please change the title of the thread.









Anyone remember the Remco He-Man-style Grell inspired figures line.
Included Grell creations: Warlord (Travis Morgan) , Deimos, Machiste, and Mikola.

[alton]

I always felt this was the best Mike Grell Cover I ever saw.

Aw crap! You caved in to the mob. The title and fan reaction used to be the most fun part of the thread. I was gonna nominate this for thread of the year.

[Jon-El]

I remember him doing Superboy & then he was doing those backup stories I used to love. He did Green Lantern in the Flash & the Calculator vs whatever hero that month.

Five or Six year old me thought Black Canary was really attractive.

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[The Darknight Detective]

I remember him doing Superboy & then he was doing those backup stories I used to love. He did Green Lantern in the Flash & the Calculator vs whatever hero that month.

Five or Six year old me thought Black Canary was really attractive.

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Grell drew fine-looking women, no doubt... Supergirl, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Night Girl, Carol Ferris, etc... mama mia!

[Comic-Reader Lad]

Grell drew fine-looking women, no doubt... Supergirl, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Night Girl, Carol Ferris, etc... mama mia!

I suppose his Laurel Kent story would take that prize. Grell liked drawing as little clothing as possible on women (and men, as Cosmic Boy and Warlord will attest).

[Jim Kelly]

I well remember seeing the work of Mike Grell for the first time, when he INKED Dave Cockrum on issue 202 of SUPERBOY [and the Legion of Super-Heroes]. In hindsight, it was probably a shameless scheme by Murray Boltinoff to test Grell as the replacement for Cockrum. And the next issue Mike Grell was the new artist--who had the unenviable task of killing off Invisible Kid, my favourite Legionnaire. So really the debut of Grell on the Legion was very bittersweet. It's too bad that we couldn't have had both artists on the team--and that Lyle Norg got killed off. What was Cary Bates thinking--Invisible Kid was not one of the characters we saw as having died in the future, in ADVENTURE COMICS 354.

The third work by Grell that I saw was an Aquaman back-up feature in ADVENTURE COMICS 435. Thankfully, there was nothing bittersweet about that.