World renowned artist Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928-May 10, 2010) is famous for his various
fantasy paintings that graced record and magazine covers, paperback books and movie posters. Before
garnering fame as a painter though, Frazetta drew comic books.
Comic book publishers tended not to allow creators to sign their work, preferring to use house names
or not mention creators at all. Some of Frazetta’s Golden Age comic art have been lost in time. This is
not to say that there isn't plenty of Frazetta’s artwork to marvel at prior to his time at E.C. Comics. THE
GOLDEN AGE FRANK FRAZETTA VOLUME ONE starts with Frazetta’s first known comic artwork from
TALLY-HO COMICS #1 and then his work on TREASURE COMICS published by PRIZE COMICS. Frank
Frazetta then worked for the publisher BETTER/NEDOR/STANDARD/PINES drawing the header
illustrations for their funny animal text pages along with various stories. One of the series he worked
on starred the hillbilly family and friends of LOOIE LAZYBONES which ran in THRILLING COMICS six
years before he began working for Al Capp on his comic strip LI’L ABNER.
THE GOLDEN AGE FRANK FRAZETTA series is not a complete collection of all of Frazetta’s early work. It
will feature as many illustrations that are in the public domain we can locate. This book was compiled
with the best images currently available. That stated, these comics are over seventy years old. The best
efforts have been made to make the pages as enjoyable as possible but not every panel is perfect and
some allowances for the age of the books need to be considered when judging the overall contents.