His next confirmed comics works are two signed penciled-and-inked pieces in Prize Comics' Treasure Comics #7 (July 1946): the four-page "Know your America" is Frank Frazetta's first "solo" work, and the single page "Ahoy! Enemy Ship!", featuring his character Capt. It was not standard practice in comic books during this period to provide complete credits, so a comprehensive listing of Frazetta's work is difficult to ascertain. 1944), published by Swappers Quarterly and Almanac/Baily Publishing Company. His first comic-book work was inking the eight-page story "Snowman", penciled by John Giunta, in the one-shot Tally-Ho Comics (Dec. In 1944, at age 16, Frazetta, who had "always had this urge to be doing comic books", began working in comics artist Bernard Baily's studio doing pencil clean-ups. I learned more from my friends there." Career Early work īuck Rogers cover for Famous Funnies number 214 (December 1953). But perhaps if you did this or that.' But that's about it. "He'd come and see where I was working, and he might say, 'Very nice, very nice. "e didn't teach me anything, really," Frazetta said in 1994. Īt age eight, Frazetta attended the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts, a small art school run by instructor Michel Falanga. So I went to art school when I was a little kid, and even there the teachers were flipping out. I remember the teachers were always mesmerized by what I was doing, so it was hard to learn anything from them. As I got older, I started drawing some pretty wild things for my age. Sometimes I had nothing left to draw on but toilet paper. When I drew something, she would be the one to say it was wonderful and would give me a penny to keep going. In 2010, a month before his death, he recalled that: The only boy in a family with three sisters, he spent much time with his grandmother, who began encouraging him in art when he was two years old. Born Frank Frazzetta in Brooklyn, New York City, Frazetta removed one "z" from his last name early in his career to make his name seem less "clumsy".