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Frank Springer (born December 6, 1929) is a comic artist who worked on the Marvel Star Wars comic series. In 1955 Springer began in the comics industry as an assistant to George Wunder on Terry and the Pirates. During the 1960s he worked mainly for Dell Publishing on titles such as Charlie Chan and Brain Boy. The following decades through the 1980s Springer worked for a number of publishers including DC Comics and Marvel Comics on titles such as Spider-Man and Transformers.

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  • Frank Springer (born December 6, 1929) is a comic artist who worked on the Marvel Star Wars comic series. In 1955 Springer began in the comics industry as an assistant to George Wunder on Terry and the Pirates. During the 1960s he worked mainly for Dell Publishing on titles such as Charlie Chan and Brain Boy. The following decades through the 1980s Springer worked for a number of publishers including DC Comics and Marvel Comics on titles such as Spider-Man and Transformers.
  • Frank Springer (December 6th, 1929 - April 2nd, 2009) is an American artist. He is probably best known for his contributions to the National Lampoon, as well as his many jobs for both Marvel Comics and DC. He penciled the first four issues of the Marvel Transformers series. He also drew the spin-off Headmasters limited-series, and had a return engagement in the main book, when he drew issue #44, "The Cosmic Carnival!" He has now died at his home at the age of 79, of prostate cancer.
  • He did the inking on one issue of Marvel's Star Trek run, #9 "Experiment in Vengeance!".
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  • Springer began his comics career in the 1960s, assisting on the newspaper strip Terry and the Pirates and doing both pencils and inks on assorted Dell comic titles (including Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Charlie Chan). He freelanced at DC, working on Batman (a 1967 Catwoman tale, and later a 1970s Riddler story), the debut "Dial H for Hero" story, and two issues of Tarzan. In the eighties, he drew multiple Secret Six stories for Action Comics (1988-1989) and issues of Green Arrow, and inked on Superman at various times.
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  • He was born in the Jamaica neighborhood of the borough of Queens.
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  • Frank Springer (born December 6, 1929) is a comic artist who worked on the Marvel Star Wars comic series. In 1955 Springer began in the comics industry as an assistant to George Wunder on Terry and the Pirates. During the 1960s he worked mainly for Dell Publishing on titles such as Charlie Chan and Brain Boy. The following decades through the 1980s Springer worked for a number of publishers including DC Comics and Marvel Comics on titles such as Spider-Man and Transformers.
  • Springer began his comics career in the 1960s, assisting on the newspaper strip Terry and the Pirates and doing both pencils and inks on assorted Dell comic titles (including Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Charlie Chan). He freelanced at DC, working on Batman (a 1967 Catwoman tale, and later a 1970s Riddler story), the debut "Dial H for Hero" story, and two issues of Tarzan. In the eighties, he drew multiple Secret Six stories for Action Comics (1988-1989) and issues of Green Arrow, and inked on Superman at various times. However, most of Springer's career was spent working for Marvel, including the original run of Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1968-1969), a four year stint on Dazzler (1981-1985), and work on The Avengers, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Conan the Barbarian, and Marvel's horror comics. He inked a 1977 issue of Marvel's Star Wars comic and later contributed to the G. I. Joe and Transformers titles. Springer also contributed to magazines, including National Lampoon and Playboy. He spent two years drawing the newspaper strip Rex Morgan MD.
  • Frank Springer (December 6th, 1929 - April 2nd, 2009) is an American artist. He is probably best known for his contributions to the National Lampoon, as well as his many jobs for both Marvel Comics and DC. He penciled the first four issues of the Marvel Transformers series. He also drew the spin-off Headmasters limited-series, and had a return engagement in the main book, when he drew issue #44, "The Cosmic Carnival!" He has now died at his home at the age of 79, of prostate cancer.
  • He did the inking on one issue of Marvel's Star Trek run, #9 "Experiment in Vengeance!".
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