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As mentioned in the [[Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01)]] page, [[Fred Fredericks]] appears to have a specific interest on history, especially about the American Civil War period (April 1861 – May 1865). That obvious interest is expressed by his own created comics strips and in some of the comic-books written and/or drawn by him. It is interesting to note that both humor strips (like "Hector Heathcote") and realistic strips (like "[[The Blue Phantom]]") could be concerned by these historical subjects.
As mentioned in the [[Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01)]] page, [[Fred Fredericks]] appears to have a specific interest on history, especially about the American Civil War period (April 1861 – May 1865). That obvious interest is expressed by his own created comics strips and in some of the comic-books written and/or drawn by him. It is interesting to note that both humor strips (like "Hector Heathcote") and realistic strips (like "[[The Blue Phantom]]") could be concerned by these historical subjects.


== Concerning the American Civil War period ==
== The American Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) ==
=== Own created newspaper strips ===
* About historic events, see "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War]" (Wikipedia detailed article)
"The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, secured a United States of America independent from Great Britain. Fighting began on April 19, 1775,
followed by the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The American Patriots were supported by France and Spain, conflict taking place in North America, the Caribbean, and Atlantic Ocean. It ended on September 3, 1783 when Britain
accepted American independence in the Treaty of Paris, while the Treaties of Versailles
resolved separate conflicts with France and Spain." (Wikipedia)
 
=== Fred Fredericks' own created newspaper strips ===
{| {{table}}  
{| {{table}}  
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
|-
| 1959 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - New Jersey Patriots|New Jersey Patriots]]'' || pen/ink/wr || 194 strips - 49 weeks
| 1959 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - New Jersey Patriots|New Jersey Patriots]]'' || pen/ink/wr || 194 strips - 49 weeks
|-
|}
=== Samples ===
<gallery>
Image:Njpats-590119.jpg|''"New Jersey Patriots" / first daily strip, January 19, 1959''
Image:njpats-590527.jpg|''"New Jersey Patriots" / August 27, 1959 daily strip''
Image:njpats-590916.jpg|''"New Jersey Patriots" / September 16, 1959 daily strip''
Image:njpats-590917.jpg|''"New Jersey Patriots" / September 17, 1959 daily strip''.
</gallery>
=== Other samples concerning the period ===
<gallery>
Image:Leatherneck-1960-11.jpg|''Cover by Fred Fredericks / "Leatherneck" magazine / November, 1960''
Image:Leatherneck-1961-04.jpg|''Cover by Fred Fredericks / "Leatherneck" magazine / April 1961''
Image:RevolutionaryWar.jpg|''Painted work by Fred Fredericks / Revolutionary War scene''
Image:RevolutionaryWar-01.jpg|''Painted work by Fred Fredericks / Revolutionary War scene''.
</gallery>
== During the 19th century... ==
=== Western Publishing (Gold Key) ===
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
| 1965 || "Daniel Boone" || pen/ink/wr ||
|-
|}
*Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies and served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Several series of comics-books have been devoted to Daniel Boone fictional adventures thanks to to different publishers such as "DC Comics", "Ace Magazines", "Quality Comics", "Gold Key".
*The Western Publishing series is inspired by the NBC action-adventure television series beginning in 1964 for 165 episodes until 1970 and  starring the actor
Fess Parker as Daniel Boone. The actor name is also cited on the covers of the comic-books and, inside, in the title of the Daniel Boone stories. 
*About the Daniel Boone tv series, see "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone_(1964_TV_series)]" (Wikipedia article)
==== "Daniel Boone" / Details of stories written and drawn by Fred Fredericks (in 3 of 15 issues published): ====
*"Daniel Boone" # 1 (January 1965) / stories: ''The Hidden Guns'' (16 pages), ''The Rescuers'' (8 pages), ''Official Handbook Trail Blazers Club'' (10 pages).
*"Daniel Boone" # 2 (May 1965) / stories: ''The Staghead Warriors'' (20 pages), '' The Murderers' Cave'' (12 pages).
*"Daniel Boone" # 3 (November 1965) / story: ''The Hostile Hunting Grounds'' (20 pages).
=== Samples ===
<gallery>
Image:Daniel Boone-01-a.jpg|''The Hidden Guns'' / "Daniel Boone" # 1, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:Daniel Boone-01-b.jpg|''The Rescuers'' / "Daniel Boone" # 1, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:Daniel Boone-01-c.jpg|''Official Handbook Trail Blazers Club'' / "Daniel Boone" # 1, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:Daniel Boone-02-a.jpg|''The Staghead Warriors'' / "Daniel Boone" # 2, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:Daniel Boone-02-b.jpg|''The Murderers'' / "Daniel Boone" # 2, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:Daniel Boone-03-a.jpg|''The Hostile Hunting Grounds'' / "Daniel Boone" # 3, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story).
</gallery>
== The American Civil War period (1861-1865) ==
The American Civil War (1861 – 1865) was a civil war in United States between the Union (states that remained loyal
to the federal union or "the North") and the Confederacy (states that voted to secede, or "the South")
The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Mexican–American War (1846 to 1848). (from Wikipedia article: "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War]").
It appears that Fred Fredericks has done considerable research on the Civil War in having consulting more than 1,000 source books about those events (see the following Mandrakewiki page: "[http://www.mandrakewiki.org/index.php?title=Spotlight_on_Fred_Fredericks_-_Other_Comics_-_Under_the_Stars_and_Bars]").
=== Fred Fredericks' created newspaper strips ===
{| {{table}}
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
|-
| 1960 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - The Late, Late War|The Late, Late War]]'' || pen/ink/wr || 60 strips - 10 weeks (or 72 strips - 12 weeks ?)
| 1960 || ''[[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics - The Late, Late War|The Late, Late War]]'' || pen/ink/wr || 60 strips - 10 weeks (or 72 strips - 12 weeks ?)
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*Note (from [[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics]] page): 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".
*Note (from [[Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics]] page): 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".


=== Samples ===
<gallery>
Image:LateLateWar19600606.png|''"The Late, Late War" / June 6, 1960 (first daily strip)
Image:LateLateWar-1960-a.png|''"The Late, Late War" / 1960 daily strip
Image:LateLateWar-1960-tr.sp.jpg|''"The Late, Late War" / Tryout Sunday page''
Image:Utsab-1961.png|''"Under the Stars and Bars" / 1961 daily strip'.
</gallery>
=== Other comics strips ===
=== Dell Publications ===
=== Dell Publications ===
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=== Gold Key Publications ===
"The Blue Phantom" is a fictional story written and drawn by [[Fred Fredericks]] and published, as an one-shot comic-book, in 1962 by Dell Comics.  
{| {{table}}
It tells the story of the son of a Virginia plantation owner caught despite him in the Civil War,
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
| 1964 || "Hector Heathcote" || pen/ink || ''uncredited / see: "[[Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01)]]"''.
|-
|}


=== Samples ===
=== Samples ===
<gallery>
<gallery>
Image:Njpats-590119.jpg|''"New Jersey Patriots" / first daily strip,January 19, 1959''
Image:LateLateWar-1960-tr.sp.jpg|''"The Late, Late War" / Tryout Sunday page''
Image:Utsab-1961.png|''"Under the Stars and Bars" / 1961 daily strip''
Image:ThebluePhantom-page01.jpg|''"The Blue Phantom" / 1962 Dell comic book, page 1''   
Image:ThebluePhantom-page01.jpg|''"The Blue Phantom" / 1962 Dell comic book, page 1''   
Image:ThebluePhantom-01.jpg|''"The Blue Phantom" / inside biographical story''
Image:ThebluePhantom-01.jpg|''"The Blue Phantom" / inside biographical story''
Image:ThebluePhantom-02.jpg|''"The Blue Phantom" / inside biographical story''
Image:ThebluePhantom-02.jpg|''"The Blue Phantom" / inside biographical story''.
Image:HectorHeathcote-01.jpg|''"HectorHeathcote", "Pick and Guard" / 1964 Gold Key comic book (inside story)''
Image:HectorHeathcote-02.jpg|''"HectorHeathcote", "Boom Service" / 1964 Gold Key comic book (inside story)''
Image:HectorHeathcote-03.jpg|''"HectorHeathcote", "Model Tea" / 1964 Gold Key comic book (inside story)''.
</gallery>
</gallery>


== Concerning American history / other periods ==
=== Western Publishing (Gold Key) ===
=== Western Publishing ===
{| {{table}}  
{| {{table}}  
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
!Year (s) !!Title !!pen/ink/writer !!Note
|-
|-
| 1965 || "Daniel Boone" || pen/ink/wr ||  
| 1964 || "Hector Heathcote" || pen/ink || ''uncredited / see: "[[Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01)]]"''.
|-
|-
|}
|}


*Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies and served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Several series of comics-books have been devoted to Daniel Boone fictional adventures thanks to to different publishers such as "DC Comics", "Ace Magazines", "Quality Comics", "Gold Key".  
*"Hector Heathcote" is a humor comic-book inspired by "The Hector Heathcote Show", a cartoon series aired on NBC Saturday mornings between September 1963 and September 1965, being one of the early Saturday morning cartoons.
 
See "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Heathcote]" (Wikipedia detailed article).
==== "Daniel Boone" / Details of stories written and drawn by Fred Fredericks (in 3 of 15 issues published): ====
*"Daniel Boone" # 1 (January 1965) / stories: ''The Hidden Guns'' (16 pages), ''The Rescuers'' (8 pages), ''Official Handbook Trail Blazers Club'' (10 pages).
*"Daniel Boone" # 2 (May 1965) / stories: ''The Staghead Warriors'' (20 pages), '' The Murderers' Cave'' (12 pages).
*"Daniel Boone" # 3 (November 1965) / story: ''The Hostile Hunting Grounds'' (20 pages).


=== Samples ===
=== Samples ===
<gallery>
<gallery>
Image:Daniel Boone-01-a.jpg|''The Hidden Guns'' / "Daniel Boone" # 1, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:HectorHeathcote-01.jpg|''"HectorHeathcote", "Pick and Guard" / 1964 Gold Key comic book (inside story)''
Image:Daniel Boone-01-b.jpg|''The Rescuers'' / "Daniel Boone" # 1, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:HectorHeathcote-02.jpg|''"HectorHeathcote", "Boom Service" / 1964 Gold Key comic book (inside story)''
Image:Daniel Boone-01-c.jpg|''Official Handbook Trail Blazers Club'' / "Daniel Boone" # 1, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:HectorHeathcote-03.jpg|''"HectorHeathcote", "Model Tea" / 1964 Gold Key comic book (inside story)''.
Image:Daniel Boone-02-a.jpg|''The Staghead Warriors'' / "Daniel Boone" # 2, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:Daniel Boone-02-b.jpg|''The Murderers'' / "Daniel Boone" # 2, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story)
Image:Daniel Boone-03-a.jpg|''The Hostile Hunting Grounds'' / "Daniel Boone" # 3, 1965 Gold Key comic book (inside story).
</gallery>
</gallery>


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This comic-book was released in link with the 1964 American epic film "The Fall of the Roman Empire". In fact, the film's name refers not exactly to the final fall of the Roman empire (which did in fact survive for centuries after the period depicted in the film ) but rather to the onset of corruption and decadence which led to Rome's demise. It focus mainly on the fights led by the ailing Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius to keep Germanic tribes from invading his northern territories on the Danube frontier (180 AD). (see: Wikipedia article: "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire_(film]").


==== "The Fall of the Roman Empire" / Details of stories drawn by Fred Fredericks: ====
==== "The Fall of the Roman Empire" / Details of stories drawn by Fred Fredericks: ====
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=== Various views ===
=== Various views ===
<gallery>
<gallery>
Image:Leatherneck-1960-11.jpg|''Cover of "Leatherneck" magazine / November, 1960''
Image:Leatherneck-1961-04.jpg|''Cover of "Leatherneck" magazine / April 1961''
Image:MenomoneeFallsGazette017-inside.jpg|''Article retaken in "[[The Menomonee Falls Gazette 17]]" ''
Image:MenomoneeFallsGazette017-inside.jpg|''Article retaken in "[[The Menomonee Falls Gazette 17]]" ''
Image:RevolutionaryWar.jpg|''Painting scene (Civil War)''
Image:Firstdaycover.jpg|''1964 First day cover envelope / on famous Civil War battle / later illustrated by Fred Fredericks'' (see below note).
Image:RevolutionaryWar-01.jpg|''Painting scene (Civil War)''
Image:Firstdaycover.jpg|''First day cover envelope''.
</gallery>
</gallery>
*Note: about the "Battle of the Wilderness" see : "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Wilderness]" (Wikipedia), and about 1964 stamp see : "[https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/onwards-to-victory/the-battle-of-the-wilderness]" (National Postal Museum)


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 13:04, 5 March 2022

As mentioned in the Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01) page, Fred Fredericks appears to have a specific interest on history, especially about the American Civil War period (April 1861 – May 1865). That obvious interest is expressed by his own created comics strips and in some of the comic-books written and/or drawn by him. It is interesting to note that both humor strips (like "Hector Heathcote") and realistic strips (like "The Blue Phantom") could be concerned by these historical subjects.

The American Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783)

  • About historic events, see "[1]" (Wikipedia detailed article)

"The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, secured a United States of America independent from Great Britain. Fighting began on April 19, 1775, followed by the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The American Patriots were supported by France and Spain, conflict taking place in North America, the Caribbean, and Atlantic Ocean. It ended on September 3, 1783 when Britain accepted American independence in the Treaty of Paris, while the Treaties of Versailles resolved separate conflicts with France and Spain." (Wikipedia)

Fred Fredericks' own created newspaper strips

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1959 New Jersey Patriots pen/ink/wr 194 strips - 49 weeks

Samples

Other samples concerning the period

During the 19th century...

Western Publishing (Gold Key)

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1965 "Daniel Boone" pen/ink/wr
  • Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies and served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Several series of comics-books have been devoted to Daniel Boone fictional adventures thanks to to different publishers such as "DC Comics", "Ace Magazines", "Quality Comics", "Gold Key".
  • The Western Publishing series is inspired by the NBC action-adventure television series beginning in 1964 for 165 episodes until 1970 and starring the actor

Fess Parker as Daniel Boone. The actor name is also cited on the covers of the comic-books and, inside, in the title of the Daniel Boone stories.

  • About the Daniel Boone tv series, see "[2]" (Wikipedia article)

"Daniel Boone" / Details of stories written and drawn by Fred Fredericks (in 3 of 15 issues published):

  • "Daniel Boone" # 1 (January 1965) / stories: The Hidden Guns (16 pages), The Rescuers (8 pages), Official Handbook Trail Blazers Club (10 pages).
  • "Daniel Boone" # 2 (May 1965) / stories: The Staghead Warriors (20 pages), The Murderers' Cave (12 pages).
  • "Daniel Boone" # 3 (November 1965) / story: The Hostile Hunting Grounds (20 pages).

Samples

The American Civil War period (1861-1865)

The American Civil War (1861 – 1865) was a civil war in United States between the Union (states that remained loyal to the federal union or "the North") and the Confederacy (states that voted to secede, or "the South") The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Mexican–American War (1846 to 1848). (from Wikipedia article: "[3]").

It appears that Fred Fredericks has done considerable research on the Civil War in having consulting more than 1,000 source books about those events (see the following Mandrakewiki page: "[4]").

Fred Fredericks' created newspaper strips

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1960 The Late, Late War pen/ink/wr 60 strips - 10 weeks (or 72 strips - 12 weeks ?)
1960-1962 Under the Stars and Bars pen/ink/wr 366 strips - 61 weeks
  • Note (from Spotlight on Fred Fredericks - Other Comics page): 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".

Samples

Other comics strips

Dell Publications

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1962 "The Blue Phantom" pen/ink/wr uncredited / see: "The Blue Phantom".

"The Blue Phantom" is a fictional story written and drawn by Fred Fredericks and published, as an one-shot comic-book, in 1962 by Dell Comics. It tells the story of the son of a Virginia plantation owner caught despite him in the Civil War,

Samples

Western Publishing (Gold Key)

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1964 "Hector Heathcote" pen/ink uncredited / see: "Hector Heathcote (Gold Key 01)".
  • "Hector Heathcote" is a humor comic-book inspired by "The Hector Heathcote Show", a cartoon series aired on NBC Saturday mornings between September 1963 and September 1965, being one of the early Saturday morning cartoons.

See "[5]" (Wikipedia detailed article).

Samples

Other historic periods

Gold Key Publications

Year (s) Title pen/ink/writer Note
1964 "The Fall of the Roman Empire" pen/ink uncredited

This comic-book was released in link with the 1964 American epic film "The Fall of the Roman Empire". In fact, the film's name refers not exactly to the final fall of the Roman empire (which did in fact survive for centuries after the period depicted in the film ) but rather to the onset of corruption and decadence which led to Rome's demise. It focus mainly on the fights led by the ailing Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius to keep Germanic tribes from invading his northern territories on the Danube frontier (180 AD). (see: Wikipedia article: "[6]").

"The Fall of the Roman Empire" / Details of stories drawn by Fred Fredericks:

  • "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (July 1964) / stories: The Fall of the Roman Empire (32 pages), Fall of the Roman Empire: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180) (1 page).

Samples

Various views

  • Note: about the "Battle of the Wilderness" see : "[7]" (Wikipedia), and about 1964 stamp see : "[8]" (National Postal Museum)

See also

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