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Before and throughout his career as artist on [[Mandrake the Magician]], [[Fred Fredericks]] worked with a number of other comics.
Before and throughout his career as artist on [[Mandrake the Magician]], [[Fred Fredericks]] worked with a number of other comics.
==Early Work with Cartoons==
See: [[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Early Work with Cartoons]]
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
|  || Gag Cartoons || wr/pen/ink/ || for Atlantic City Daily World ''(first cartoon at 18)''
|-
|  || Various Features<br>"Salty Ranks" in ''Camp Lejeune Globe'' || wr/pen/ink || in marine corps paper 2 years
|-
| 1953 || Atlantic City history sketches || wr/pen/ink ||
|-
|}


==Newspaper strips==
==Newspaper strips==
{| {{table}}  
{| {{table}}  
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Syndicate !!Note
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
|-
| 1959 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - New Jersey Patriots|New Jersey Patriots]]'' || pen/ink ||Superior Features Syndicate ||
| 1959 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - New Jersey Patriots|New Jersey Patriots]]'' || pen/ink/wr || 194 strips - 49 weeks
|-
|-
| 1960 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - The Late, Late War|The Late, Late War]]'' || pen/ink || Adcox-Lenahan inc. || daily in "The Daily Journal" (Elizabeth, New Jersey)
| 1960 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - The Late, Late War|The Late, Late War]]'' || pen/ink/wr || 72 strips - 12 weeks
|-
|-
| 1960-1961 || ''Under Stars and Babs'' || pen/ink || ||
| 1960-1962 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - Under the Stars and Bars|Under the Stars and Bars]]'' || pen/ink/wr || 366 strips - 61 weeks
|-
|-
| 1970-1982 || ''Manny'' || pen/ink ||  || daily
| 1983|| ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - W. C. Fields|W. C. Fields]]'' || pen/ink || daily
|-
|-
| 1970-1982 || ''Manny'' || pen/ink ||  || Sunday
| 1983|| ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - W. C. Fields|W. C. Fields]]'' || pen/ink || Sunday
|-
|-
| 1983-1985 || ''W. C. Fields'' || pen/ink || || daily
| 1996 || ''[[The Phantom]]'' || ink || daily
|-
|-
| 1983-1985 || ''W. C. Fields'' || pen/ink || || Sunday
| 1995-2000 || ''[[The Phantom]]'' || ink || Sunday
|-
|-
| 1996 || ''[[The Phantom]]'' || ink || || daily
|}
===Note===
*After "New Jersey Patriots" Fredericks said<ref name="River">"Jersey Patriots" Artist Moves to Gillette" The Courier News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) 22 December 1959, p 15.</ref> that his newest projects include a panel strip, "True Tales of the Civil War", which has been accepted by  a syndicate for sale to Sunday newspapers, and a sketchbook of old silent screen heroes and villians, titled "Old Cowhands".
*At "[http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FREDERICKS%2C+FRED Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999]" Jerry Bails list [[Fred Fredericks]] as pen and ink artist on a daily/Sunday strip named "Manny" in the years 1970-1982. This may be a misunderstanding since Fred Fredericks used "Manny" as a nickname for "Mandrake the Magician".
 
==Magazines==
 
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
|-
| 1995-2000 || ''The Phantom'' || ink || || Sunday
| 1964 - 1991 || [[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - Rebel|Rebel]] || wr/pen/ink || in Scholastic Scope
|-
| 1980 - 1982 || [[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - Mike Shamus|Mike Shamus]] || wr/pen/ink || in Mike Shane Mystery Magazine
|-
|-
|}
|}


==Comics books==
===Dell Publications===
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
| 1958 || ''Filler'' || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1960-1962 || "The Flintstones" || pen/ink || ''unconfirmed''
|-
| 1960-1962 || "Heckle and Jeckle" || pen/ink || ''unconfirmed''
|-
| 1960-1962 || "Hector Heathcote"" || pen/ink || ''uncredited / see: "[[Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01)]]"''.
|-
| 1960-1962 || "Nancy and Sluggo" || wr ||
|-
| 1960-1962 || "Peanuts" || wr || ''unconfirmed''
|-
| 1960-1962 || "Rocky and Bullwinkle" || pen/ink 
|-
| 1961 || "Tip Top" || wr ||
|-
| 1961-1962 || "King Leonardo" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
| 1961-1962 || "New Terrytoons" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
| 1962 || "The Blue Phantom" || pen/ink/wr || ''uncredited / see: "[[The Blue Phantom]]"''.
|-
|}


===Western Publishing===
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
| 1962 || "The Flintstones" || pen/ink || ''unconfirmed''
|-
| ? || "Heckle and Jeckle" || pen/ink || ''unconfirmed''
|-
| 1962 || "Yogi Bear" || ink ||
|-
| 1962 || "Rocky and Bullwinkle" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1962-1963 || "Bullwinkle" || wr ||
|-
| 1962-1963 || "Deputy Dawg" || wr ||
|-
| 1962-1963 || "King Leonardo" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
| 1962-1963 || "New Terrytoons" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
| 1962-1964 || "Peanuts" || wr ||
|-
| 1962-1964 || "The Twilight Zone" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1962-1965 || "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery" || pen/ink ||
|-
| ? || "Dinky Duck" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1962-1964 || "Mr. Ed" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1962-1965 || "Nancy and Sluggo" || wr ||
|-
| 1963 || "Travels of Jaime Mc Pheeters" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1963-1965 || "Mighty Mouse" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
| 1964 || "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" || wr ||
|-
| 1964 || "Fall of the Roman Empire" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1964 || ''Filler'' || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1964 || "Hector Heathcote" || wr ||
|-
| 1964 || "Krazy Kat" || wr ||
|-
| 1965 || "Astro Boy" || wr ||
|-
| 1965 || "Daniel Boone" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
| 1965 || "First Men on the Moon" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1965 || ''Illustration'' || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1965 || "Linus the Lionhearted" || wr ||
|-
| 1965 || "The Munsters" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
| 1965 || "Liddle Wolfgang" || pen/ink/wr || in ''The Munsters''
|-
| 1969 || "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" || pen/ink ||
|-
| 1970 || "Smokey Bear" || wr ||
|-
| 1972-1983 || "Witch Hazel" || wr || in ''Little Lulu''
|-
| 1978 || "Tubby" || wr ||
|-
|}


===DC Comics===
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
| 1986-1987 || "Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe" || pen/ink || DC Comics || #20: Sargon the Sorcerer (pencils)<br>#26: Zatara (pencils & inks)
|-
| 1988 || "Secret Origins: Zatara" || ink || DC Comics || #27:
|-
| 1988 || "Secret Origins: Zatanna" || ink || DC Comics || #27:
|-
| 1995 || "Black Lightning" || ink || DC Comics || #8-9
|-
|}
===Marvel Comics===
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
| 1986-1987 || "[[Defenders of the Earth]]" || ink ||
|-
| 1987, 1991-1992 || "Hulk" || ink ||
|-
| 1987 || "Silverhawks" || ink || ''Star Comics'' #2-6
|-
| 1989 || "Namorita" || ink ||
|-
| 1989-1990 || "Nth Man" || ink ||
|-
| 1990 || "Aquarian" || ink ||
|-
| 1990 || "Wild Cards" || ink || (Imprint: Epic)
|-
| 1990-1991 || "Nick Fury" || ink ||
|-
| 1990-1992 || "Quasar" || ink ||
|-
| 1990-1993 || "Avengers" || ink ||
|-
| 1991 || "Destroyer" || ink ||
|-
| 1991 || "Red Skull" || ink ||
|-
| 1991-1992 || "Thor of 2591" || ink ||
|-
| 1991-1993 || "Daredevil" || ink ||
|-
| 1992 || "Kang" || ink ||
|-
| 1992 || "Phantom Rider" || Pen/ink ||
|-
| 1992 || "The Punisher" || ink ||
|-
| 1993 || "Avengers West Coast" || ink ||
|-
| 1993 || "Cardiac" || ink ||
|-
| 1993 || "The Secret Defenders" || ink ||
|-
| 1994 || "Nomad" || ink ||
|-
| 1994 || "Spider-Man" || ink ||
|-
| 1994 || "Sub-Mariner" || ink ||
|-
| 1998 || ""Epic Battles of the Civil War"" || ink || issue #1 only
|-
|}
===Acclaim Comics===
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
| 1993 || "Solar, Man of the Atom" || ink ||  || [https://www.comics.org/issue/53714/ #26], including cover. (Imprint: Valiant)
|-
|}
==Covers==
===Comic books===
====King Comics====
=====Mandrake the Magician=====
<gallery>
Image:mandrake05king.png|<center>[[Mandrake the Magician 5 (King)|issue 5]]
Image:mandrake06king.png|<center>[[Mandrake the Magician 6 (King)|issue 6]]
Image:mandrake07king.png|<center>[[Mandrake the Magician 7 (King)|issue 7]]
Image:mandrake08king.png|<center>[[Mandrake the Magician 8 (King)|issue 8]]
Image:mandrake09king.png|<center>[[Mandrake the Magician 9 (King)|issue 9]]
Image:mandrake10king.png|<center>[[Mandrake the Magician 10 (King)|issue 10]]
</gallery>
====Marvel Comics====
=====Defenders of the Earth=====
<gallery>
Image:Marvel_dote_1.jpg|[[Defenders of the Earth 1 (Marvel)|issue 1]]
Image:Marvel_dote_2.jpg|[[Defenders of the Earth 2 (Marvel)|issue 2]]
Image:Marvel_dote_3.jpg|[[Defenders of the Earth 3 (Marvel)|issue 3]]
Image:Marvel_dote_4.jpg|[[Defenders of the Earth 4 (Marvel)|issue 4]]
</gallery>
=====Silverhawks=====
<gallery>
Image:SC-Silverhawks-02.jpg|issue 2
</gallery>
====Valiant Comics====
<gallery>
Image:Valiant-Solar-26.jpg|''Solar, Man of the Atom'' #26
</gallery>
===Others===
====Leatherneck====
Fredericks did<ref name="River">"Jersey Patriots" Artist Moves to Gillette" The Courier News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) 22 December 1959, p 15.</ref> two covers for the "Leatherneck" magazine.
<gallery>
Image:Leatherneck-1960-11.jpg|from 1960, November
Image:Leatherneck-1961-04.jpg|from 1961, April
</gallery>
====Scholastic Scope====
Fredericks' [[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - Rebel|'''Rebel''']] strip was printed in the "Scholastic Scope" magazine in the years 1964 to 1991. He did one cover for the magazine in 1966.
<gallery>
Image:scholastic-scope-19660325.jpg|1966, March 25
</gallery>
====Program guide for the 1974 Houston Comic Book Convention====
<gallery>
Image:cb-convention-houston-1974-01.jpg|''Cover of the program guide / Fred Fredericks himself at the center background ?...''
</gallery>
====Film Collectors Registry====
<gallery>
Image:Film-Collectors-Registry-76-67.jpg|issue 67<br>august 1976
</gallery>
{{stub}}
{{stub}}
==References==
<references />
==Sources==
*[http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FREDERICKS%2C+FRED Fred Fredericks at Bailsprojects]
*[https://www.comics.org/searchNew/?q=Fred%20Fredericks&selected_facets=facet_model_name_exact:story&sort=chrono Fred Fredericks at GCD]
[[Category: Spotlight on|Fredericks - Other comics, Fred]]
[[Category: Spotlight on|Fredericks - Other comics, Fred]]

Latest revision as of 13:22, 21 July 2023

Before and throughout his career as artist on Mandrake the Magician, Fred Fredericks worked with a number of other comics.

Early Work with Cartoons

See: Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Early Work with Cartoons

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
Gag Cartoons wr/pen/ink/ for Atlantic City Daily World (first cartoon at 18)
Various Features
"Salty Ranks" in Camp Lejeune Globe		 wr/pen/ink in marine corps paper 2 years
1953 Atlantic City history sketches wr/pen/ink

Newspaper strips

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1959 New Jersey Patriots pen/ink/wr 194 strips - 49 weeks
1960 The Late, Late War pen/ink/wr 72 strips - 12 weeks
1960-1962 Under the Stars and Bars pen/ink/wr 366 strips - 61 weeks
1983 W. C. Fields pen/ink daily
1983 W. C. Fields pen/ink Sunday
1996 The Phantom ink daily
1995-2000 The Phantom ink Sunday

Note

  • After "New Jersey Patriots" Fredericks said[1] that his newest projects include a panel strip, "True Tales of the Civil War", which has been accepted by a syndicate for sale to Sunday newspapers, and a sketchbook of old silent screen heroes and villians, titled "Old Cowhands".
  • At "Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999" Jerry Bails list Fred Fredericks as pen and ink artist on a daily/Sunday strip named "Manny" in the years 1970-1982. This may be a misunderstanding since Fred Fredericks used "Manny" as a nickname for "Mandrake the Magician".

Magazines

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1964 - 1991 Rebel wr/pen/ink in Scholastic Scope
1980 - 1982 Mike Shamus wr/pen/ink in Mike Shane Mystery Magazine

Comics books

Dell Publications

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1958 Filler pen/ink
1960-1962 "The Flintstones" pen/ink unconfirmed
1960-1962 "Heckle and Jeckle" pen/ink unconfirmed
1960-1962 "Hector Heathcote"" pen/ink uncredited / see: "Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01)".
1960-1962 "Nancy and Sluggo" wr
1960-1962 "Peanuts" wr unconfirmed
1960-1962 "Rocky and Bullwinkle" pen/ink
1961 "Tip Top" wr
1961-1962 "King Leonardo" pen/ink/wr
1961-1962 "New Terrytoons" pen/ink/wr
1962 "The Blue Phantom" pen/ink/wr uncredited / see: "The Blue Phantom".

Western Publishing

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1962 "The Flintstones" pen/ink unconfirmed
? "Heckle and Jeckle" pen/ink unconfirmed
1962 "Yogi Bear" ink
1962 "Rocky and Bullwinkle" pen/ink
1962-1963 "Bullwinkle" wr
1962-1963 "Deputy Dawg" wr
1962-1963 "King Leonardo" pen/ink/wr
1962-1963 "New Terrytoons" pen/ink/wr
1962-1964 "Peanuts" wr
1962-1964 "The Twilight Zone" pen/ink
1962-1965 "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery" pen/ink
? "Dinky Duck" pen/ink
1962-1964 "Mr. Ed" pen/ink
1962-1965 "Nancy and Sluggo" wr
1963 "Travels of Jaime Mc Pheeters" pen/ink
1963-1965 "Mighty Mouse" pen/ink/wr
1964 "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" wr
1964 "Fall of the Roman Empire" pen/ink
1964 Filler pen/ink
1964 "Hector Heathcote" wr
1964 "Krazy Kat" wr
1965 "Astro Boy" wr
1965 "Daniel Boone" pen/ink/wr
1965 "First Men on the Moon" pen/ink
1965 Illustration pen/ink
1965 "Linus the Lionhearted" wr
1965 "The Munsters" pen/ink/wr
1965 "Liddle Wolfgang" pen/ink/wr in The Munsters
1969 "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" pen/ink
1970 "Smokey Bear" wr
1972-1983 "Witch Hazel" wr in Little Lulu
1978 "Tubby" wr

DC Comics

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1986-1987 "Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe" pen/ink DC Comics #20: Sargon the Sorcerer (pencils)
#26: Zatara (pencils & inks)
1988 "Secret Origins: Zatara" ink DC Comics #27:
1988 "Secret Origins: Zatanna" ink DC Comics #27:
1995 "Black Lightning" ink DC Comics #8-9

Marvel Comics

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1986-1987 "Defenders of the Earth" ink
1987, 1991-1992 "Hulk" ink
1987 "Silverhawks" ink Star Comics #2-6
1989 "Namorita" ink
1989-1990 "Nth Man" ink
1990 "Aquarian" ink
1990 "Wild Cards" ink (Imprint: Epic)
1990-1991 "Nick Fury" ink
1990-1992 "Quasar" ink
1990-1993 "Avengers" ink
1991 "Destroyer" ink
1991 "Red Skull" ink
1991-1992 "Thor of 2591" ink
1991-1993 "Daredevil" ink
1992 "Kang" ink
1992 "Phantom Rider" Pen/ink
1992 "The Punisher" ink
1993 "Avengers West Coast" ink
1993 "Cardiac" ink
1993 "The Secret Defenders" ink
1994 "Nomad" ink
1994 "Spider-Man" ink
1994 "Sub-Mariner" ink
1998 ""Epic Battles of the Civil War"" ink issue #1 only

Acclaim Comics

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1993 "Solar, Man of the Atom" ink #26, including cover. (Imprint: Valiant)

Covers

Comic books

King Comics

Mandrake the Magician

Marvel Comics

Defenders of the Earth
Silverhawks

  • issue 2

Valiant Comics

  • Solar, Man of the Atom #26

Others

Leatherneck

Fredericks did[1] two covers for the "Leatherneck" magazine.

  • from 1960, November

  • from 1961, April

Scholastic Scope

Fredericks' Rebel strip was printed in the "Scholastic Scope" magazine in the years 1964 to 1991. He did one cover for the magazine in 1966.

  • 1966, March 25

Program guide for the 1974 Houston Comic Book Convention

  • Cover of the program guide / Fred Fredericks himself at the center background ?...

Film Collectors Registry

  • issue 67
    august 1976


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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jersey Patriots" Artist Moves to Gillette" The Courier News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) 22 December 1959, p 15.

Sources

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