Fran Hopper

Fran Hopper (July 13, 1922 – November 29, 2017),[1] née Frances R. Deitrick,[2] was an American comic-book artist active during the 1930s–1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

One of the earliest women in the field, she drew primarily for the publisher Fiction House on features, including "Jane Martin", "Glory Forbes", "Camilla", "Mysta of the Moon", and "Gale Allen and Her All Girl Squadron".

Hopper was born in Maryland as the second oldest of five children of Stapelton C. and Emily R. Dietrick, and by age 7 was living in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Her first confirmed credit, under the name Fran Dietrick, is as penciler and inker of the six-page science-fiction feature "Norge Benson" in publisher Fiction House's Planet Comics #24 (cover-dated May 1943).

And in Wings Comics, she drew the espionage feature "Jane Martin", created by pseudonymous writer Fred Hawk and an unconfirmed artist in issue #1 (Sept. 1940), from #67–84 (March 1946 – August 1947).