Leonard Frank

Leonard Frank (July 15, 1932 – January 15, 2015) is best known in comics as a prolific artist and inker on over fifty issues, primarily for Fawcett and Charlton in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Philadelphia, he graduated from the Wharton School in 1954 before serving in the U.S. Army and selling real estate. His most credited work appears on *Captain Midnight*, *Gabby Hayes Western*, and *Monte Hale Western*, where he often collaborated with writers and editors on Western and adventure titles. He also contributed to *Men of Mystery Comics* and *This Magazine Is Haunted*. Frank’s style was clean and direct, suited to the pulp-inspired action of the era. In 1962, after moving to San Francisco, he was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital and subjected to insulin shock and electroconvulsive therapy. This experience redirected his life: by 1972 he worked for *Madness Network News*, and in 1973 co-founded the Network Against Psychiatric Assault. He compiled books of quotations and wrote about his own psychiatric survivor activism, becoming a noted human rights advocate. His legacy in comics remains that of a journeyman artist whose later life was defined by courageous anti-psychiatry work.