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Andriola was born in New York City and grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey . He studied at Cooper Union and Columbia University , intending to becoming a writer. Instead, following a fan letter he wrote to Milton Caniff , he became his assistant, working with him on '' Terry And The Pirates '' and '' Scorchy Smith ''. His first strip was '' Charlie Chan '' ( 1938 - 1942 ), an adaptation of the popular detective novels for the McNaught Syndicate . For five months in 1943 he drew a minor superhero, Captain Triumph , for Quality Comics ' '' Crack Comics ''. For a year he drew the strip '' Dan Dunn '' with writer Allen Saunders . ''Dunn'' was cancelled on October 3 , 1943 and the next day their strip ''Kerry Drake'' debuted. ''Drake'', heavily influenced by '' Dick Tracy '', was about a former assistant district attorney turned police officer who battled a series of flamboyant villians. It gradually became a Soap Opera strip focusing on Drake and his wife Mindy. Andriola was assisted by Fran Matera , Jerry Robinson , and Sururi Gumen , the latter of whom shared credit with Andriola starting in 1976 . ''Drake'' was cancelled following Andriola's death in 1983 . Andriola also drew the strip '' It's Me Dilly '' under the pseudonym Alfred James from 1957 to 1960 . EXTERNAL LINKS
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