Today in Comics History, March 18: Happy birthday, Frank McLaughlin!

Born today in 1935: comics illustrator Frank McLaughlin, artist on the comic strip Gil Thorp (and assistant on Brenda Starr, Nancy, and The Heart of Juliet Jones). He's also drawn extensively for DC (Batman, The Flash, Justice League of America, more), Marvel (Captain America, The Defenders, and others) and Charlton, where he was art director, co-created Judomaster, and worked on Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, Son of Vulcan, among others!

advertisement in The Charlton Arrow (2014 series) #2 (Comicfix, 2014)
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As might be expected by creator of a character like Judomaster, Frank was also a martial arts enthusiast and expert, and wrote and drew beautiful and detailed instructional pages for books like Marvel's Deadly Hands of Kung Fu b/w magazine:

from "Kihon Kumite" in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #9 (Marvel, February 1975), written and drawn by Frank McLaughlin
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Happy birthday, Frank!