In 1961 Frazetta returned to regular comics and focused on his own style, a bit awkward after working for Al Capp for 9 years. An avid and skilled baseball player he turned down an offer to play baseball for the New York Giants. He found work with Harvey Kurtzman and worked on Little Annie Fanny for Playboy magazine.

Handsome, muscular, and charismatic, Frazetta was popular with women and had a string of intense romances. In 1952, at the age of 24, Frazetta met petite seventeen-year-old Eleanor Kelly and his playboy days came to an end. "I sensed that she would be forever loyal and I never ever had that feeling about any other girl. I'd been involved with, " Frazetta says. "Sure, she had most of the physical attributes I looked for in a women, she was beautiful and athletic. But beyond that she was very sharp and alert and pert and she knew a lot of things I didn't know." After four years of dating they were married on November 17th 1956.

In the early 1950s Frank Frazetta worked for EC Comics, National Comics (which featured the character "Shining Knight"), fantasy book company Avon and several other fantasy/comic book companies. Comic books included John Wayne Comics, Buck Rogers, Famous Funnies and Ghost Rider and a long list of others, a testament to Frank Frazetta's dedication, his playful energy and his diverse interests. George Lucas later claimed that Frazetta's artwork for Buck Rogers was the inspiration for the Star Wars Saga.

At age 16 Frazetta started looking for work and drawing illustrations for comic books: Westerns, fantasy, mysteries, histories and other contemporary themes. He later turned down multiple job offers from Walt Disney in the late 1940s.

Frazetta's abilities flourished under Falanga and the teacher thought of sending young Frazetta to Europe to further his studies, at his own expense. Falanga died suddenly in 1944 and the school closed a year later.

When he went to kindergarden his teachers were astonished that a five-year-old child was drawing better then ten-year-olds. At the age of 8 Frazetta's parents were encouraged and convinced by his school teachers to enroll him in the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts. He attended the academy for eight years under the tutelage of Michael Falanga, an award-winning Italian fine artist. When the two first met Falanga sat the boy down with pencil and paper and asked him to copy a picture of a group of ducks. 30 minutes later he returned to check on Frazetta's progress, took one look at the drawing, grabbed it and leaped into the air shouting: "Mama Mia, Mama Mia! We have a genius here!"

Frazetta began drawing at the age of three and sold his first work soon after: He sold his first crayon drawing to Grandma for the tidy sum of one penny.

Fantasy artist Frank Frazzetta (he later would drop one of the Zs) was born February 9th, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, the only boy in a family with 3 sisters. He is widely considered to be the most influential and most emulated fantasy artist in history.