Dærick Gröss Sr. (born January 28, 1947) is an illustrator, writer, editor, and art director. Gross worked at comic book companies Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Chaos! Comics, Image Comics, and Innovation Publishing, primarily in the 1990s, and more recently at his own company, Studio G, with his son, Dærick Gröss. He was the visual editor at inDELible Comics, and the art director at ACP Comics. As of 2008, he lived in Simi Valley, California. Early life and education Gröss was born in the Dayton suburb of Kettering, Ohio on January 27, 1947, and was a comic book fan from childhood. He later attended Ohio University from 1965-1967 studying art and theatre. He was a member of the fraternity, Phi Kappa Theta. Dissatisfied with the art instruction at the university, he went to the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1969. Career Early career After graduation, Gröss worked at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio as a live set designer and created art for on camera graphics for 3 years. Gröss joined the Cincinnati Post as a staff artist and cartoonist, eventually becoming the Art Director as illustrator and page designer. Murciélaga She-Bat Gröss answered a CFW Magazine ad which started his career in comics. In 1988, he with created the latina-mutant Murciélaga She-Bat, a part of the REIKI team in Robo Warriors. In the early 1990s, two issues of Murciélaga She-Bat were published by Heroic Publishing, and issue #3 by Revolutionary Comics. In 2000, 2 comics featuring Murciélaga were released as a bilingual flipbook in both Spanish and English. Heroic Publishing later reprinted the original 8 issues of the series. Innovation Comics Dærick Gröss painted interior art for 12 issues of an adaptation of the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Series published by Innovation Comics. He won Comicon's Russ Manning award for most promising newcomer. In 1992, Gröss also painted cover art for Forbidden Planet issues #1-4, also published by Innovation. Marvel and DC Gröss penciled issues #84 and #88 of Excalibur for Marvel Comics in 1995. He penciled part 7 of the short-lived CyberComics initiative from Marvel featuring Spiderman in 1996. He also penciled a portion of X Force/Cable Annual #1 in 1995, and X-Men: Domino issue #1 in 1997. At DC Comics, Gröss penciled Batman: Two-Face Strikes Twice issues #1 and #2 in 1993. Other Work At adult comic book publisher Carnal Comics, Gröss drew several projects in