Henry G Franke, III

Henry Franke is the editor of The Burroughs Bulletin, the journal of The Burroughs Bibliophiles, the nonprofit literary society devoted to the life and works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was the contributing editor and penned the introductions for IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics archival series reprinting Russ Manning's Tarzan newspaper comic strips. Volume 1 won the 2014 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection-Strips. He also wrote book introductions for IDW's Tarzan - 1929 daily...See more

Henry Franke is the editor of The Burroughs Bulletin, the journal of The Burroughs Bibliophiles, the nonprofit literary society devoted to the life and works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was the contributing editor and penned the introductions for IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics archival series reprinting Russ Manning's Tarzan newspaper comic strips. Volume 1 won the 2014 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection-Strips. He also wrote book introductions for IDW's Tarzan - 1929 daily strip reprints and for Tarzan and the Adventurers, the fifth volume in Titan Books' Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library. Specializing in art inspired by Burroughs' stories, Franke is currently working on an illustrated biography of Russ Manning. He served in the U.S. Army from 1977 to 2009, and is now with the Army as a government civilian. See less