īy the end of the '50s, Doyle was writing the majority of stories for such important Archie titles as Archie and Betty and Veronica DeCarlo said that when he joined Archie Comics, most of the scripts he was given were written by Doyle. Though he no longer drew stories himself, he continued to write in storyboard form, using a desk that used to belong to Fiction House artist Fran Hopper. "My mind worked better that way." In 1951 he joined Archie Comics as a writer. After he was let go from Fiction House, he decided that he was better suited to writing stories: "It was easier," he said. ĭoyle, one of several Archie contributors who studied art at the Pratt Institute, was originally a penciller for Fiction House comics, working on such titles as Planet Stories. Artist Dan DeCarlo referred to Doyle as "the best". He wrote over 10,000 stories featuring the Archie characters. Frank Doyle (November 17, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York - April 3, 1996, in New Port Richey, Florida) was the head writer for Archie Comics for over thirty years.
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