High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frank Springer (December 6, 1929 — April 2, 2009) was an American comic book and comic strip artist best known for Marvel Comics` Dazzler and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Collaborating with writer Michael O`Donoghue, Springer created one of the first adult-oriented comics features on American newsstands—The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist in the magazine Evergreen Review. A multiple winner of the National Cartoonists Society`s Reuben Award, Springer was a president of the Society and a founding member of the Berndt Toast Gang, its Long Island chapter.