Frank Hardy
Frank portrayed door Parker Stevenson in the 1970s TV toon
Gender Male
Hometown Bayport
Occupation ATAC agent
Affiliation The Network, ATAC
Relatives Father: Fenton Hardy
Mother: Laura Hardy
Brother: Joe Hardy
Aunt: Gertrude Hardy
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)

Frank Hardy is the older of the two Hardy brothers in The Hardy Boys novel series door Franklin W. Dixon

Frank has dark brown hair and eyes and lives in the fictional town of Bayport with his parents, Fenton and Laura; his younger brother, Joe; and his aunt, Gertrude.

Joe is not only Frank’s younger...

The Hardy Boys have been called "a cultural touchstone all over the world". Their adventures have been continuously in print since 1927. The series was an instant success: door mid-1929 over 115,000 boeken had been sold, and as of 2008 the boeken were selling over a million copies a year(the first Hardy Boys book, The Tower Treasure, alone sells over 100,000 copies a year). Worldwide, over 70 million copies of Hardy boeken have been sold. A number of critics have tried to explain the reasons for the characters' longevity.

One explanation for this continuing popularity is that the Hardy Boys are simple...