Jerry Grandenetti

We met at a restaurant in New York in Central Park

J.G.

How was your Meal.

Fine. Let's get on with the interview. I'm quite busy. Not as busy as I Was in 1970 or was in 1980, I'm not sure.

J.G.

That's okay. How has the industry treated you in general. Do you think you deserved more star status or top billing or lead feature assignments. Did they assign the best people to work on you? Did you get the best coloring treatments, or anything you can think of?

Most of the time I was satisfied. I would have been happier if they promoted me more, you know like my special abilities etc etc. Although their was a guy who worked on me who I thought pretty good but never stood around long enough to develop his vision. He also did war stories and some horror stuff before working on me all for DC comics. I think before DC he worked on a guy who only wore a mask and lived in a cemetery and had a side kick, a black kid named Ebony and after that he drew a doctor guy. This guy was always experimenting and never really settled on any style he was happy with. Unlike most guys in the industry he got started late in the business and maybe that was the reson for all the floundering. Anyway he left comics to go into advertising.

Now that i think about it he was the first artist to do a cover halftone (wash) paintings for comic books. He did them in Black and white and they would convert it to color.

J.G.

How did you get along with all the other guys?

You mean guys and girls.

J.G.

Yes, guys and girls.

I guess okay. We're all a little weird anyway, strange in our own sort of way . Now that i think about it there's this one broad who flies around in a transparent plane and gleaming rope. Does she think shes some kind of cowboy? Then theirs that guy who runs around with some kind of lamp or green lantern, this guy should be a night watchmen! Talking about green, what about the guy that's all green all over his body. And a guy who flies around on a surf board, this is one lucky guy. Imagine surfing around morning noon and night and you don't even need water! Sorry I'm drifting away... where were we? By the way what's is your name? I didn't get it the first time.

J.G.

Josh Grivens... I work for www.jergrand.com. A great site you should check out, you're on a few pages.

Did you ever do comic art or writing?

J.G.

I did years ago before I went into advertising.

Can we order another dessert?

J.G.

Sure why not, I see that you have quite an appetite, you had a fourth order of the main course and this is your fifth dessert! Do you ever have a weight problem?

Never had a weight problem. I eat like this all the time. That's one of the nice things about being who i am , nothing changes. Years from now check with me and you'll see that I'm the same. Isn't that interesting, in fact want to hear another interresting thing. I was told I was created because of the cutbacks at the time, saving money on color inks. So they came up with an all white character representing ghost like. Then would you believe before the character hit the magazine racks they added color green to my cloak because things got better. You might say I'm a product of necessity being the mother of all invention!

J.G.

Do you get tired of lifting worlds planets and asteroids like they were some toys? What power you have it's awesome. Do you go to a gym or do you exercise on a regular basis. How do you stay so trim?

Are you kidding. Have you ever seen me exercise or do push ups or weight lifting, never. I'm in top condition not like that bat guy who has a great gym in his mansion and is exercising all the time.

J.G.

How would you like teaming up with some other guy on some adventure?

No way am I going to run around with that bat guy or with that guy whos runs faster then a speeding train or it is speeding bullet or is it both! I'm a loner, it's not my thing. I don't need anybody.

J.G.

What do you do for entertainment... women... travel good food, wine, games or whatever ones does for R&R . Like me i have a job which I Like, but I also love playing chess... great relaxtion for me. Everyone needs sometime to relex , anyway lets continue. Do you consider your self a hero?

Not really a hero, but maybe a crusader of sorts, not in the religious sence. I deal primarily with universal evils, outer space creatures from mystical mysteries of the unkown. Those other guys like that spider guy or that bat guy deal mostly with earth problems. Of course you have heros on earth like firemen, policeman and military people who fight wars to defend America's democracy. Those are your heros! What I mean is that if I didn't have special powers I wouldn't run into a burning building or charge a war tank with guns blazing at me. And I don't do this for money or fame or whatever.

J.G.

Would you like to star in a movie or have a major come back in comic books?

I don't care either way. I don't do this for money or fame. I was created for the sole purpose of protecting mankind from the evils of this world or especially evils from outer space. I specislize in the supernatural, monster or willions from other planets. I've encountered some of the strangest monsters or creatures as the Spectre. I guess I wouldn't mind starring in a movie, it would be good for promotion.

Madmen creatures villions of all sorts seek world domination and we have not yet destroyed them...we look everywhere for them.

SOLD

Will we tire from this eternal pursuit...will I tire...the battle must continue...I will continue...no matter how tiring.

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