While we are continuing with the posts in - between the SWAMP THING MONTH posts we are taking a small break from Eclipse Comics but not from Timothy Truman as we take a look at his GRIMJACK at First Comics.
Now before doing the usual research I knew three things about GRIMJACK : it's a comic series about a weird looking pirate from First Comics, the first 19 issues were drawn by Timothy Truman who does weird western comics and Tom Sutton did a stint on the book because I always included some GRIMJACK covers in my quasi - annual Tom Sutton tribute posts .
First Comics on the other hand was a comicbook publishing company I was a bit more familiar with than Eclipse Comics since they published various series I was reading like WHISPER ( which had some issues drawn by Norm Breyfogle and which was really difficult to find ), Jim Starlin's DREADSTAR , Mike Grell's SABLE , Howard Chaykin's AMERICAN FLAGG, Joe Staton's E - MAN, comic adaptions of Michael Moorcock's ELRIC and HAWKMOON books but most importantly Steve Rude's space opera NEXUS.
And then there was BADGER. Like Nexus BADGER was written by Mike Baron and my brother read that series religiously - especially once Ron Lim took over the penciling duties - even though it was not that easy to get the issues. I know I wrote that in some of my previous posts but what a lot of comic readers of Today don't realize is that back then getting a comicbook series that was not published either by DC Comics or Marvel Comics were not very easy to get. It's not like Today where you have so many options to get comicbooks and even order online and with a big discount as the direct market through comicbook speciality shops was only starting and even if you could find one chances were that their selection of independents - if they had any at all - was severely limited.
And if they had some it didn't mean that they had the ones that you were looking for. And it was even worse if you tried to get them from Germany. With luck you could find some at the newsstand at the bus or train station and I remember what a big impact it had when they got a huge shipment of Hero Comics titles like CAPTAIN THUNDER AND BLUE BOLT, ETERNITY SMITH, THE MARKSMAN, CHAMPIONS and lastly FLARE.
Aside from that your best bet was going to comicbook conventions where you could find the odd number of a title you had been looking for years.
Coming back to GRIMJACK, I don't know why the series not connected with me because it's not like I was averse to the whole ex cop / soldier turned private eye / gun for hire trope because I liked other series that followed the same vein like the Mike Hammer tv show ( although that might have something to do with the big breasted Hammerettes ) or comicbook series like MOON KNIGHT or the above shown JON SABLE.
As for the contents of this post, at first ( no pun intended ) I wanted to do the usual post with original art, some choice pages and colorful ads but then I came upon the full original art for issue 13 ( thanks to the fine folks at Heritage Auctions ) so that will be the main content of this post.
first things first
grim stuff
grim links
grim videos
mike baron started the wally west flash with butch guice
superhero tv shows
mike grells sable and viper co - produced by howard chaykin who even wrote some episodes the show was crated by paul demeo and danny bilson who also were the masterminds behind the flash tv show with john wesley shipp
first elric comic adaption
flash with joyce hyser
dreadstar
automan in spanish episode four
grim banner
grim quote of the day
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