Frazetta Fridays w/Frazetta Girls #4 | Golden Age of Comics

In this episode we explore Frazetta's contributions to comics in the golden age of comics. In 1944 Bailey Comics hired a young high school student to be John Giunta's art assistant. This new apprentice was sixteen-year-old Frank Frazetta. Giunita was immediately impressed with Frazetta’s artwork and persuaded Bernard Bailey to publish a revised version of Frank’s personal comic strips, “Snowman.” The 7 page story titled “Snowman” appeared in TALLY HO #1 in 1944.

Following the publishing of ‘Snowman in Tally Ho #1,’ Giunita and Frazetta continued to collaborate with a few projects such as ‘Man in Black.’ After a short while of working with Bailey Comics, Frazetta began to feel slighted with his payments and left to find new work at Fiction House Comics. While working at Fiction House Comics, Frazetta met artists Graham Ingels, Bob Lubbers an ...