Robbins, Frank: - Franklin Robbins was an American comic book and comic strip artist and writer. In 1939, the Associated Press hired Robbins to take over the aviation strip Scorchy Smith which he drew until 1944. Robbins created his Johnny Hazard strip in 1944 and worked on it for more than three decades until it ended in 1977. In 1968, Robbins began working as a writer for DC Comics. Working with editor Julius Schwartz and artists Neal Adams and Irv Novick, he would revitalize the Batman character with a series of noteworthy stories reestablishing Batman's dark, brooding nature.