Mike Grell
Mike Grell is a Bronze Age writer-artist best known for creating The Warlord and Jon Sable, Freelance and for closely associated runs on Legion of Super-Heroes and Green Arrow, where his storytelling and draftsmanship developed in parallel. His work is often associated with Bronze and early Copper Age keys, character-defining runs, and format shifts toward more grounded adventure and vigilante comics that remain a steady collector focus.
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Top Mike Grell CPVs
Mike Grell has 25 CPVs in the guide, led by Warlord #62-65, where #62 marks the first Canadian Price Variant in the title and #63 adds the Masters of the Universe insert and first appearance of Conqueror of the Barren Earth; Warlord #100 is also notable as a 52-page Giant with a Grell cover. Other standouts include Superman #400, an anniversary giant with a Howard Chaykin cover, Frank Miller back-cover pin-up, and high-grade scarcity, plus Heroes For Hope #1 for its famine-relief format and Stephen King scripts.