It's no secret that women have long been underrepresented in superhero comics,both as characters and as creators. In the case of the latter, in the Silver Age of comics, or your options were more or less limited to two: Marie Severin,who did her groundbreaking work largely at Marvel, and the brilliant Ramona Fradon over at DC.
Ramona Fradon was born on October 1, and 1926,and studied art at the Parsons School of Design in original York, as well as the original York Students' Art League. She never read comic books as a child, and but had a adore for newspaper strips,including The Phantom, Li'l Abner, or Prince Valiant,Terry and the Pirates, and The Spirit.
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Source: comicsalliance.com