My Cigar Band collection rolls on. Here's Superboy 214, cover-date January 1976. So basically for the first few years of his career, Mike Grell could draw fight scenes and beautiful women but not much else, but his skill with fight scenes and beautiful women made him a fan favorite? Do I have that about right?
That's a Grell cover. First story here written by Jim Shooter and drawn by Grell. Second story written by Cary Bates and drawn by Grell and Bill Draut. First one involves a bratty kid stranded on a machine planet and seems about 10 years out of date for the mid-70s. Maybe Shooter wrote it in the mid-60s then forgot about it. Second one has a nice focus on Shrinking Violet.
As a younger fan, I never noticed the peaks and valleys of early Grell, but man, it really shows in some of these issues. Maybe the workload of this title plus Green Lantern and random other features was proving to be too much, but lots of panels just look unfinished.
Except for the fight scenes and beautiful women, of course...
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