 Some of his earliest comics-related work in the U.S. was as an inker under artist-packager Will Eisner and penciler Mike Ploog on the military instructional publication "PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly".As fellow "PS" artist Murphy Anderson recalled, "Frank had come to work for Will about the same time I did, maybe a month or two later, and was just fresh from Cuba.... [H]is father was Sicilian, but his mother was Spanish, or Cuban.