Mike Grell entered the comics industry as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip in 1972.
16 Facts About Mike Grell
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In 1973 Mike Grell moved to New York City, and began his long relationship with DC Comics.
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At DC, Mike Grell worked on characters such as Aquaman, Batman, Green Arrow, and the Phantom Stranger in arcs or single-issue stories.
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Mike Grell says he got that job because he was walking in the editor's door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist, Dave Cockrum, was walking out the door, having just quit.
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Mike Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19,1981, to February 27,1983.
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In 1987, Mike Grell wrote and drew the three-issue prestige format limited series Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters.
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Mike Grell 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.
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Mike 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.
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Mike Grell would write a retelling of Green Arrow's origin and first case in Secret Origins vol.
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Mike Grell wrote and illustrated the official Post-Crisis origin of Green Arrow in Green Arrow: The Wonder Year miniseries in 1993.
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In 1988, Mike Grell wrote and illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of the Timothy Dalton James Bond film Licence to Kill, and in 1989 wrote and drew an original Bond story, the three-issue mini-series Permission to Die, both co-published by Acme Press and Eclipse Comics.
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Mike Grell did co-write the two issue Turok limited series entitled Turok The Hunted, as well as several fill-in issues of the ongoing Turok series.
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Mike Grell brought the lead character's story to an end and drew some issues.
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Mike Grell worked for Marvel drawing some stories of X-Men Forever.
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Mike Grell is rewriting the Jon Sable screenplay, working on an adaptation of Shaman's Tears, and writing two stories for ComicMix.
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In 2012, Mike Grell provided the cover art for the 10-page preview comic produced by DC Comics for the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con to promote the TV series Arrow.