Robert "Bob" Fujitani (1921–2020) began drawing comic books in the early 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s, he became the primary ghost artist at times on such newspaper strips as Mandrake the Magician and Flash Gordon. He worked anonymously or pseudonymously in part because of World War II–era anti-Japanese prejudice. In the 1960s, he drew notable runs on such comic books as Turok, Son of Stone; Lassie; and Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom. He drew seven issues of Dell’s Prince Valiant in the 1950s, the first artist after Hal Foster to draw that iconic character for print. Fujitani retired from comics in 2005 and continued to paint.