Harold “Fred” Fredericks, Jr passed away on March 10, 2015. He is most likely known to fans for taking over for Phil Davis as the artist on Mandrake the Magician in June 1965, collaborating with comics legend Lee Falk, and taking over scripting duties once Lee Falk passed on in 1999. In addition to his work on Mandrake and inking the Sunday strips for The Phantom, he worked on Scholastic Magazine’s “Rebel” strips and was a prolific inker for many newspaper strips and Marvel and DC comics. At the time of his passing, he was 85 years old.