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

Artists: Tim Vigil (All) , Kris Silver (Writer)

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

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Tim signing pages

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Title:	Birth page Very 1st full appearance ever of GRIPS first from issue #1 by Tim Vigil (Faust fame)
Artist:	Tim Vigil (All)
Artist:	Kris Silver (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Double Page Splash
For Sale Status:	Sorry, Not For Sale...check my other FOR SALE folders for pages to buy
Views:	390
Likes on CAF:	5 6
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	5/12/2025
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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.

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Duke Fleed
Member Since 2013

Posted on 5/12/2025

Awesome find!

Kavi H
Member Since 2018

Posted on 5/12/2025

what a cool DPS find. Grips and Faust were so ahead of their time, Vigil is an indie comics legend for sure. Awesome that you got to meet him at ECCC and have him sign it, would love to have seen what he brought to the show (I spy a Faust Cover portfolio on the table in your pic!?). congrats Jordan!

Jordan Joanou
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 5/12/2025

Kavi H wrote:

I did pick up a Faust cover from him at the con :)

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 5/12/2025

Love the raw violence against the backdrop of oppulence! Outlaw and bloody for the time period, Vigil was ahead of the times and pushed the enevelope to show there was a taste for this in comics.

Bill C
Member Since 2009

Posted on 5/12/2025

Oh man, killer piece!

Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008

Posted on 5/12/2025

Great addition to the collection, Jordan!

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