11 Facts About Frank Brunner

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Frank Brunner was born on February 21,1949 and is an American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.

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Frank Brunner was in the same graduating class as Larry Hama and Ralph Reese.

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Frank Brunner studied at the New York University Film School.

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Englehart and Frank Brunner created a multi-issue storyline in which a sorcerer named Sise-Neg goes back through history, collecting all magical energies, until he reaches the beginning of the universe, becomes all-powerful and creates it anew, leaving Strange to wonder whether this was, paradoxically, the original creation.

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In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Englehart and Frank Brunner's run on the "Doctor Strange" feature ninth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".

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Frank Brunner drew covers for the supernatural series The Tomb of Dracula and the swamp-monster series Man-Thing.

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Also for Marvel, Brunner adapted Robert E Howard's sword-and-sorcery pulp fiction hero Conan the Barbarian in the 42-page story "The Scarlet Citadel", and drew many covers for the similar series Red Sonja and Savage Sword of Conan.

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Frank Brunner left Marvel in 1979 and wrote an essay in The Comics Journal stating that he "felt the romance with comics was over".

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Frank Brunner then wrote and drew the graphic novel The Seven Samuroid, a science-fiction takeoff of the movie classic Seven Samurai.

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Frank Brunner moved to Hollywood and began a career in movie and television animation, working on projects for Hanna-Barbera, Walt Disney Imagineering, Warner Bros.

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Frank Brunner was the head of character design for the Fox animated series X-Men.