Dærick Gröss, Sr.

Who is Dærick Gröss, Sr.?

Dærick Gröss Sr. is a writer and illustrator of fantasy and comic book art.

Gröss has worked for a number of comic book companies, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Malibu Comics, Heroic Publishing, Revolutionary Comics, Chaos! Comics, and Innovation Publishing.

In the 1980s Gröss was editor and publisher of Kung-Fu Warriors, Shred and Tales of the Ninja Warriors. He inked Last of the Viking Heroes for Pacific Comics.

In the early 1990s Gröss contributed art to Innovation's Forbidden Planet and adaptations of the Anne Rice books The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. He illustrated several covers for Heroic and wrote Murcielaga She-Bat, a character of his own creation. In 1993 Revolutionary Comics announced an entire line of comics based on Gröss's characters, but folded after only publishing an issue each of Murcielaga She-Bat and Reiki Warriors. In 1994–1995, Gröss contributed art to select issues of Marvel's Excalibur, as well as a dominant number of their experimental On-Line, animated comics.

In 2001, Gröss relaunched Murcielaga She-Bat under his own company, Studio G. A year later, a fire struck Studio G and forced them to shut down all publication. Heroic Publishing later took on Murcielaga She-Bat for another six issues, but the new issues were limited to reprinting old Murcielaga adventures.