{"id":20588,"date":"2015-09-13T14:08:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=20588"},"modified":"2015-09-13T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:11:18","slug":"happy-68th-birthday-mike-grell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/13\/happy-68th-birthday-mike-grell\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 68th birthday, Mike Grell!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Grell<\/a> was born 68 years ago. So happy birthday!<\/p>\n

Also, a little more than 42 years ago, when I was but a fanboy wandering conventions with a pad under one arm, begging artists for sketches<\/a>, he drew me this. So add a thanks to those birthday wishes!<\/p>\n

\"1973SeulingConMikeGrellSketch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Based on the date—July 6, 1973—Grell would have been 26 and I would have been 18 when I approached him the Friday of one of Phil Seuling’s famed July 4th weekend comic conventions at the Statler Hilton Hotel.<\/p>\n

I can no longer tell, from this distance of more than four decades, whether that’s supposed to be Green Arrow or Warlord, neither of which he had yet drawn professionally.<\/p>\n

Warlord wouldn’t appear until two years later, in 1st Issue Special<\/em> #8 (Nov. 1975), and I don’t think he had a chance to tackle Green Arrow until 1987. <\/p>\n

Based on that beard and mustache, it could be either of them. But I’ll choose to believe Grell was giving me a glimpse of Warlord, long before the rest of you got to see him.<\/p>\n

Hope you’re enjoying your birthday, Mike! And thanks again for putting up with the annoying fan I most certainly was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Grell was born 68 years ago. So happy birthday! Also, a little more than 42 years ago, when I was but a fanboy wandering conventions with a pad under one arm, begging artists for sketches, he drew me this. So add a thanks to those birthday wishes! Based on the date—July 6, 1973—Grell would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,18,46,687],"class_list":["post-20588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-comics","tag-dc-comics","tag-mike-grell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20600,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588\/revisions\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}