* Patrick A. Reed remembers the writer and editor Mark Gruenwald. Gruenwald's was the first obituary I wrote for The Comics Journal, and I remember the magazine's relationship with a significant swathe of comics was such that a friend of Gruenwald's listened in on my conversations with the widow in case I tried to pull something sneaky. I thought of Gruenwald a great deal a couple of years back when Kim Thompson passed away. They were letter-circle peers, and Kim was quite sad to learn that Gruenwald had passed away. He said that Gruenwald was as perfect a fit working at Marvel as Kim was at Fantagraphics. I heard once Gruenwald had an adult-sized teeter-totter at his home and occasionally conducted meetings on it, which I really, really hope is true.
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