The daughter of a taxi-driver father and a public-stenographer mother, Flo Steinberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and raised in that city's Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods.
13 Facts About Flo Steinberg
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Flo Steinberg attended Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls, serving a term as president of the student council.
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In March 1963, Flo Steinberg moved to New York City, and in the career-girl fashion of that era spent some months living at a YWCA and job-hunting through employment agencies.
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Flo Steinberg had to field uninvited fans who would appear at the office, hoping to meet the comics creators.
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Flo Steinberg came up and was hired to help me out, though she eventually went on to do writing and production work.
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Flo Steinberg became exposed to the underground comix scene after meeting and becoming friends with Trina Robbins, who had come to the Marvel offices to interview Lee for the Los Angeles Free Press underground newspaper.
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Flo Steinberg joined Marvel just after Stan had revolutionized the comic industry by giving his characters dimension, character, and personality, and just as Marvel was catching on big.
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Flo Steinberg befriended cartoonists including Art Spiegelman and worked for Gary Arlington's San Francisco Comic Book Company before leaving the city after a year.
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Flo Steinberg moved back to her family in Boston for a short while and then returned to New York City.
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Flo Steinberg spoke at a 1974 New York Comic Art Convention panel on the role of women in comics, alongside Marie Severin, Jean Thomas and fan representative Irene Vartanoff.
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In 1975, Flo Steinberg published Big Apple Comix, a seminal link between underground comix and modern-day independent comics, with contributors including such mainstream talents as Neal Adams, Archie Goodwin, Denny O'Neil, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood.
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Flo Steinberg serves as the secretary to President Thor on an Earth populated almost entirely by superheroes.
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Flo Steinberg died on July 23,2017, from complications from a brain aneurysm and metastatic lung cancer.