Birth page Very 1st full appearance ever of GRIPS first from issue #1 by Tim Vigil (Faust fame)

Historic very 1st full appearance of Grips...pencilled and inked back in 1986 by Tim Vigil.
Blasting onto the scene in pages 2 & 3 DPS.

Preview pages of Grips were drawn by Ron Lim in the Silver Wolf Bulletin #2.
Grips #1 is his first full appearance in story canon.

I remember being awestruck by the ultra-violence of this ground breaking comic.
Grips was everything we secretly wanted Wolverine to be like...not holding back on using his claws to take out the villains.

....and the horror for evil is Grips....

I was very fortunate to get Tim to sign these pages at the most recent Emerald City Comic Con.
It was a pleasure to meet Tim and hear the back story about Grips.

2nd attached pic is Tim signing these pages.