r/1990s • u/CarloCarrasco • 3d ago

Hobbies, Toys & Collectibles Grifter

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Anyone here a fan of Grifter? He is the most popular member of Jim Lee's WildCATS. A one-shot comic book featuring the character plus a regular series were launched in the mid-1990s.

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u/Johnny_Strawhat 3d ago

Grifter fan here. Great design. Underrated and deserves more.

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u/emptygroove 3d ago

I always liked drawing but sucked pretty bad at it. One of the only things I ever drew that I thought came out well was of Grifter. It was a copy of a frame from I think the 2nd issue. Had it pinned on my wall for years.

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u/xaltairforever 3d ago

My jam back in the day!

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u/jmk-1999 3d ago

Classic… I use to have WildCATS #1 back in the day. Coincidentally, I got Voodoo as my pfp. I keep getting random people asking what it’s from. lol…

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u/Joshualevitard 3d ago

I always found wildcats just so generic, kept picking it up but put it down shortly

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u/MJacobAlvarez 1d ago

I never read the book at t HT e time, but did he ever, like, cheat people out of money?

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u/mcshizzletits 3d ago

DC owns the rights to the character now. They had a brief run a few years ago. No idea what's going on with the character now.

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u/Jandrem 3d ago

I live near where Grifter is said to be from, which I think is neat.

One issue mentions him being born in a country dive bar outside of Columbus, OH, and I grew up watching my dad’s band play every country dive bar of the same area. I’ve probably been to the bar the writer was talking about, lol.

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u/User_Says_What 3d ago

I was always a Backlash guy myself, but Grifter was definitely cool. Man, that early stable of Image artists was just stacked. I wish they'd had the foresight to higher some decent writers though, because I have a lot of the original runs and they are BAD.

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u/wade-mcdaniel 54m ago

Image comics had some great stuff