[3] Afterward, he drew the cover and writer Howard Keltner's eight-page story "The Adder", starring the superhero Astral Man, in the fanzine Star-Studded Comics #14 (Dec.

[3] Another issue's adaptation of the Gardner Fox novel Warrior of Llarn by writer Roy Thomas and artist Grainger was reprinted in the book The Best of Star-Studded Comics (Hamster Press, 2005).

[4] Grainger additionally drew and colored some covers for 1969 issues of the Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzine ERB-dom,[5] and interior art beginning 1965.

[3] Among his considerable amount of 1970s work, Grainger inked penciler Dave Cockrum on several issues of X-Men, a title whose revival in that decade led to its becoming one of comics' most popular series.

Fantasy artist Clyde Caldwell described Grainger's later career, and his mentorship: My dad was a printer and worked for a company called Radiator Specialty in Charlotte.

[10][11] Grainger's last work was penciling and inking the posthumously published, eight-page Volstagg story "The Thief of Asgard" in Marvel Comics Presents #66 (1990).