Today in Comics History, February 21: Happy birthday, Frank Brunner!

Born on this day: comics artist and animation artist Frank Brunner (Warp, Doctor Strange, Giant-Size Man-Thing, Creepy, Howard the Duck, Conan the Barbarian and more, plus movie and TV work on Jonny Quest, Batman '89, and the animated X-Men series, among others). But did he ever get his photo on a calendar square?


from Mighty Marvel Calendar 1977 (Marvel, 1976)
But Frank did appear when Iron Man crashed a comic book convention (where he won second prize in an Iron Man cosplay contest). He's the one in the blue-and-yellow (Donald Duck?) t-shirt in the background, just right of center, along with Roy Thomas, Mike Friedrich, Tom Orzechowski, and Frank wife's Jan Brunner!


from Iron Man #72 (Marvel, January 1975), script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Vince Colletta, additional pencils and inks by Neal Adams (Roy and Mike figures), Alan Kupperberg (Tom Orzechowski) and Frank Brunner (himself and Jan), colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Tom Orzechowski
Happy birthday, Frank!


from 1975 Mighty Marvel Convention Program Book (Marvel, 1975), photograph by Michele Wolfman