Sam Grainger
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| Born | Samuel E. Grainger June 14, 1930 |
| Died | July 25, 1990 (aged 60) |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
Samuel E. Grainger (June 14, 1930 – July 25, 1990) was an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker during the 1960s and 1970s periods fans and historians call, respectively, the Silver Age and the Bronze Age of Comic Books. Series on which he worked include The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk and X-Men.
Sam Grainger's first known credited comic book work was at the Derby, Connecticut-based publisher Charlton Comics. His seven-page backup story, " Behold...The Sentinels", which he both penciled and inked in Peter Cannon... Thunderbolt #54 (Oct. 1966), also marked the first superhero story by prominent 1960s comic-book writer Gary Friedrich. Grainger continued on the "Sentinels" feature through issue #59 (Sept. 1967).
Afterward, he drew the cover and writer Howard Keltner's eight-page story "The Adder", starring the superhero Astral Man, in the fanzine Star-Studded Comics #14 (Dec. 1968). Another issue's adaptation of the Gardner Fox novel Warrior of Llarn by writer Roy Thomas and artist Grainger was reprinted in the book The Best of Star-Studded Comics (Hamster Press, 2005). Grainger additionally drew and colored some covers for 1969 issues of the Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzine ERB-dom, and interior art beginning 1965.
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