Frank Springer was born in the Jamaica neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, and moved with his family to nearby Nassau County, Long Island when he was nearly 10 years old.
11 Facts About Frank Springer
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Frank Springer graduated from Malverne High School in Malverne, New York, in 1948.
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Frank Springer had one sibling, a sister, who predeceased him.
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Frank Springer penciled and inked an origin-story retelling sandwiched between Steranko's final two issues.
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Frank Springer returned to draw a handful of stories for Marvel's black-and-white horror-comics magazines in 1974 and 1975, and then sprang from title to title, penciling sporadic issues of The Avengers, Captain America, The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Spider-Woman, among others, and inked many Marvel and DC comics.
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Frank Springer drew The Incredible Hulk newspaper strip, starring the Marvel Comics' antihero; the romance strip The Virtue of Vera Valiant, with writer Stan Lee; and The Adventures of Hedley Kase in the 1990s.
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Frank Springer did a small amount of uncredited penciling on the comic strip The Phantom, assisting Sy Barry, and "for a really brief period" worked with writer-artist Stan Drake on The Heart of Juliet Jones.
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In 1980, just shy of his 51st birthday, Frank Springer ran the New York City Marathon.
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Frank Springer at one point was president of the National Cartoonists Society, and was a founding member of the Berndt Toast Gang, its Long Island chapter.
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Frank Springer died on April 2,2009, at his home in Damariscotta, Maine, of prostate cancer.
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Frank Springer was survived by his wife and five grown children: Barbara Edwards, Bill Springer, Jennifer Dills, Jon Springer, and Christopher Springer.