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Grandenetti recalls his origins as a background artist at Will Eisner's studio, describing Eisner as "like a god to us," and traces a career spanning DC war comics (as one of Bob Kanigher's main artists), Warren's horror magazines (where he had full creative freedom to experiment with layout), and collaboration with Joe Simon on offbeat features like Prez and "The Green Team." He singles out his Warren period as the most exciting of his career and his time at Eisner's studio as the most formative, and speaks candidly about DC's war books being so sanitized he could never relate them to his own Navy experience. By the time of the interview he had retired from DC.