Original Art FRANK ROBBINS 1969 JOHNNY HAZARD newspaper strip ACTION BONDAGE For Sale

Original hand-drawn art from legend Frank Robbins

Pencils AND inks by Robbins.

JOHNNY HAZARD Daily Comic Strip Dated Jan 8, 1969

A hog-tied Hazard gets clubbed by an \"old witch.\"

(King Features Syndicate, 1969)

The page is in great condition.

Drawn on heavy weight Strathmore or Bristol board. Page crisp. Lettering done directly on the boards; some lettering / spelling corrections done with paste-up in the first panel. Editor notes in blueline pencil. Stamped on the back. Legal line pasted firmly on.

Frank Robbins (September 9, 1917 – November 28, 1994) was a notable American artist and writer, as well as a prominent painter whose work appeared in museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Associated Press hired Robbins to take over Scorchy Smith which he drew from 1939- 1944. Robbins created his Johnny Hazard strip in 1944 and worked on it until 1977.

In 1968, Robbins began working as a writer for DC Comics. His first story for that publisher appeared in Superman\'s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #83. He became the writer of Superboy as of issue #149 and began writing Batman and Detective Comics the following month.

Working with editor Julius Schwartz and artists Neal Adams and Irv Novick, he would revitalize the character with a series of noteworthy stories reestablishing Batman\'s dark, brooding nature.

Man-Bat was co-created by Robbins and Neal Adams in Detective Comics #400 Robbins and Novick created the Ten-Eyed Man in Batman #226. He helped launch the Plop! title and drew DC\'s licensed version of The Shadow.

For Marvel Comics he launched the Invaders series with writer Roy Thomas in co-created the characters Union Jack, Spitfire, and the Kid Commandos.

Other Marvel work included Captain America[20] and Ghost Rider as well as the Human Fly and Man from Atlantis.

Robbins died of a heart attack on November 28, 1994.