Richard W Sprang was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on the superhero Batman during the period fans and historians call Golden Age of Comic Books.
12 Facts About Dick Sprang
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Dick Sprang's Batman was notable for his square chin, expressive face and barrel chest.
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Dick Sprang was a notable explorer in Arizona, Utah, and Colorado, whose discoveries included "Defiance House", a previously unrecorded ancestral Puebloan structure.
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Dick Sprang was born in Fremont, Ohio, and became a professional illustrator at an early age, painting signs and handbills for local advertisers.
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Dick Sprang joined the staff of "the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in Toledo, Ohio" shortly after graduating, continuing to produce magazine work concurrently.
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Dick Sprang described his early career and work ethic, in 1987:.
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Dick Sprang thereafter worked almost entirely on Batman comics and covers and on the Batman newspaper strip, becoming one of the primary Batman artists in the character's first 20 years.
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Dick Sprang worked on a couple of stories for the main Superman comic, "including the tale that introduced the first, prototype Supergirl".
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Dick Sprang used to study the way children read comics in order to experiment with page layouts and panel to panel transitions, hoping to create "the most suspense and the most fluidity to keep the pages turning".
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Dick Sprang spent much of his spare time between 1946 and 1963 surveying the northern Arizona and southern Utah area, especially Glen Canyon.
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Dick Sprang married Marion Lyday in 1973 and the two remained in Prescott until his death in 2000.
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Dick Sprang received an Inkpot Award at the San Diego ComiCon in 1992, and inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.