Howard the Duck Vs Wonder Woman Original Comic Art Pencil Sketch

American comics creator and artist

Gene Colan
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Colan at the Big Apple Summer Sizzler in Manhattan, June 13, 2009

Born Eugene Jules Colan
(1926-09-01)September 1, 1926
The Bronx, New York
Died June 23, 2011(2011-06-23) (aged 84)
The Bronx, New York
Nationality American
Area(s) Penciller, Inker
Pseudonym(s) Adam Austin

Notable works

Daredevil
Batman, Detective Comics
Doctor Strange
Howard the Duck
The Tomb of Dracula
Awards Eagle Accolade, 1977, 1979
Eisner Honor, 2010
Spouse(s) Sallee Greenberg (divorced)
Adrienne Colan (Brickman)

Eugene Jules Colan (; September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011)[1] was an American comic book artist best known for his piece of work for Curiosity Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror serial. He co-created the Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics;[two] [3] Ballad Danvers, who would become Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel; and the non-costumed, supernatural vampire hunter Blade.

Colan was inducted into the Volition Eisner Comic Volume Hall of Fame in 2005.

Early life [edit]

Eugene Jules Colan[4] was born September i, 1926 to Harold Colan, an insurance salesman, and Winifred Levy Colan, an antique dealer,[5] in The Bronx,[six] New York City.[7] His parents ran an antiques business on the Upper Due east Side.[4] His family was Jewish, and the family's surname had originally been "Cohen".[8] Colan began drawing at historic period three. "The first matter I ever drew was a lion. I must've absolutely copied it or something. Simply that's what my folks tell me. And from then on, I just drew everything in sight. My grandfather was my favorite subject".[7] Among his earliest influences, he said in 2001, were the Coulton Waugh adventure comic strip Dickie Dare "in The New York Sun. I was influenced by the fashion, or the story. Mostly the story. I took information technology very seriously."[9] He moved with his family "at most historic period iv" to Long Embankment, New York, on Long Island.[9] Later, he would try to copy artist Norman Rockwell's covers to The Saturday Evening Postal service.[9] Other major art influences were comics artists Syd Shores and Milton Caniff.[7] Colan attended George Washington High School in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, and went on to study at the Fine art Students League of New York.[4]

Career [edit]

Early career [edit]

Daredevil #48 (Jan. 1969). Factor Colan (penciler) and George Klein (inker) slip an in-joke into this Times Square scene. Whatever caused the apparent frustration, note the word at Daredevil'south left hand.

Colan began working in comics in 1944, doing illustrations for publisher Fiction House's aviation-risk series Wings Comics. "[J]ust a summer job before I went into the service",[ten] it gave Colan his starting time published work, the one-page "Wing Tips" non-fiction filler "P-51B Mustang" (issue #52, Dec. 1944).[11] His first comics story was a 7-page "Clipper Kirk" feature in the post-obit month's effect.[12]

Subsequently attempting to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps during World State of war II but being pulled out by his father "because I was underage", Colan at "xviii or nineteen" enlisted in the Army Air Corps.[vii] Originally scheduled for gunnery school in Boulder, Colorado, plans changed with the war's sudden end. "I was going to be an aerial gunner. A bomber. Just it never materialized", he recalled in 2001.[9] After preparation at an Army army camp near Biloxi, Mississippi, he joined the U.S. forces in the Philippines. There Colan rose to the rank of corporal, drew for the Manila Times, and won an fine art contest.[vii]

Upon his return to civilian life in 1946, Colan went to work for Marvel Comics' 1940s precursor, Timely Comics.[13] He recalled in 2000,

I was living with my parents. I worked very hard on a war story, about seven or eight pages long, and I did all the lettering myself, I inked it myself, I even had a wash effect over it. I did everything I could do, and I brought it over to Timely. What you had to do in those days was go to the candy store, option upwardly a comic book, and wait in the back to see where it was published. Most of them were published in Manhattan, they would tell you the address, and yous'd simply go down and make an appointment to go downwardly and run across the art managing director.[7] Al Sulman, listed in Timely mastheads then as an "editorial associate",[fourteen] "gave me my break. I went up there, and he came out and met me in the waiting room, looked at my work, and said, 'Sit here for a infinitesimal'. And he brought the work in, and disappeared for about 10 minutes or so ... and then came back out and said, 'Come with me'. That'south how I met [editor-in-chief] Stan [Lee].[15] Merely like that, and I had a job.[7]

Comics historian Michael J. Vassallo identifies that showtime story as "Adam and Eve — Crime Incorporated" in Lawbreakers Ever Lose #1 (cover date Leap 1948), on which is written the internal job number 2401. He notes another story, "The Cop They Couldn't Stop" in All-True Crime #27 (April 1948), chore number 2505, may accept been published first, citing the differing cover-date classification ("Spring" v. "April") for the uncertainty.[sixteen]

Hired as "a staff penciler",[3] Colan "started out at most $sixty a week. ... Syd Shores was the art director".[17] Due to Colan's work going uncredited, in the way of the times, comprehensive credits for this era are difficult if not impossible to ascertain. In 2010, he recalled his first comprehend art being for an issue of Captain America Comics;[18] Colan drew the 12-page lead story in event #72, the encompass-creative person of which is undetermined.[19] He definitively drew the cover of the terminal effect, the horror comic Captain America's Weird Tales #75 (Feb. 1950),[20] which did not include the titular superhero on either the comprehend or inside.[21]

Later virtually all the Timely staff was allow go in 1948 during an industry downturn, Colan began freelancing for National Comics, the time to come DC Comics. A stickler for accuracy, he meticulously researched his countless state of war stories for DC'due south All-American Men at State of war, Captain Storm, and Our Army at War, likewise as for Marvel's 1950s forerunner Atlas Comics, on the series Battle, Battle Action, Battle Ground, Battlefront, K.I. Tales, Marines in Boxing, Navy Gainsay and Navy Tales. Colan'southward earliest confirmed credit during this fourth dimension is penciling and inking the six-folio criminal offence fiction story "Dream Of Doom", by an uncredited writer, in Atlas' Lawbreakers Always Lose #6 (Feb. 1949).[22]

By the early 1950s, he was living in New Rochelle, New York.[23] Around this fourth dimension he did his get-go work for DC Comics, and then the industry leader, on the licensed series Hopalong Cassidy, based on the film and Television receiver Western hero, cartoon it from 1954 to 1957.[24] [25] In the 1960s, he lived in New Jersey, where his and Adrienne's children, Erik and Nanci,[four] were raised.[vii]

Silver Age [edit]

While freelancing for DC romance comics in the 1960s, Colan did his start superhero work for Marvel under the pseudonym Adam Austin.[26] Taking to the form immediately, he introduced the "Sub-Mariner" feature in Tales to Astonish,[27] and succeeded Don Heck on "Iron Man" in Tales of Suspense.

Sometime subsequently Colan began this pseudonymous stint, Curiosity editor Stan Lee made overtures to lure him from DC. Colan recalled,

Stan asked me to come over and work with him. I don't remember how, but I do know that we fabricated a connection, and he asked me, "How about coming over?" And and so, my answer was — I think this was at his house; I had some work to deliver tardily one night; it was in the winter, and I went over and delivered it — and he asked me to come up over to Marvel, and I said, "Well, what'south the inducement? Why should I go out DC and come over to work with y'all, unless there's a little something in information technology for me to exercise that? I'm not just going to exit them [DC]." He said, "Well, if you're looking for more money, at that place's no point to information technology." I said, "What practice yous hateful?" [laughs] He said, "Simply considering, sooner or later, they're going to have to burn you, and you'll accept to come up over here." [laughs] I smiled, and I said, "Stan, I recollect I have to go." And I shook his hand, and I said, "That's okay, I'll just stay where I am." The next twenty-four hours, I got a phone call from Stan, because I had asked for more than money, and he gave it to me. He tried to barefaced me, and ... so I came over.[seven]

Nether his own proper noun, Colan became 1 of the premier Silver Age Marvel artists, illustrating a host of such major characters as Captain America, Medico Strange (both in the late-1960s and the mid-1970s serial), and his signature character, Daredevil. Operating, like other company artists, on the "Curiosity Method" — in which editor-in-chief and principal author Stan Lee "would but speak to me for a few minutes on the phone, tell me the beginning, the middle and the terminate [of a story] and not much else, maybe four or five paragraphs, so he'd tell me to make [a 20-page] story out of it,"[10] providing artwork to which Lee would then script dialogue and captions — Colan forged his own style, different from that of artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, whom Lee would point to as examples of the Marvel style:

Whatsoever book he thought was selling, he would have the residual of the staff try to copy the same style of piece of work, only I wouldn't do it. I'd tell him if you want Stevie Ditko then you'll have to get Stevie Ditko. I tin can't practice information technology, I have to be myself. So he left me alone. ... He knew I meant information technology and that I couldn't do information technology and in that location was no betoken in trying to force me to do it. Stan recognized something in my work from the very first, whatsoever that was, that gave [me] my first big break. And I always got along very well with Stan; non everybody can say that but I did ... and so he let me do pretty much what I wanted to do ... [T]here was always some piffling change here and there, but basically he left me alone. ... And I was intimidated by Stan. I didn't want to go into his part, information technology upset me a piffling bit, just he was very dainty to me. He left me pretty much alone because I was able to deliver pretty much what he was looking for, and so we never had any trouble.[x]

Lee and Colan introduced the Emissaries of Evil in Daredevil Annual #i (1967)[28] and the Jester in Daredevil #42 (July 1968).[29] Colan's long run on the Daredevil series encompassed all simply three issues in an otherwise unbroken, 81-issue cord from #20-100 (Sept. 1966 - June 1973), plus the initial Daredevil Almanac (1967). He returned to draw 10 issues sprinkled from 1974 to 1979, and an eight-effect run in 1997. Colan admitted relying upon amphetamines in order to make deadlines for illustrating the serial Doctor Strange,[30] for which he would personally visit the character's real-life Manhattan neighborhood, Greenwich Hamlet, and shoot Polaroid photographs to utilize equally location reference.[31] Captain Marvel, a graphic symbol created to secure the trademark on the proper noun,[32] debuted in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (Dec. 1967) by Lee and Colan.[33] The original Guardians of the Milky way first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #xviii (Jan. 1969) by writer Arnold Drake and Colan.[34]

In Helm America #117 (Sept. 1969), Colan and writer-editor Stan Lee created the Falcon,[35] the offset African-American superhero in mainstream comic books.[2] [iii] The character came about, Colan recalled in 2008,

... in the late 1960s [when news of the] Vietnam State of war and civil rights protests were regular occurrences, and Stan, e'er wanting to be at the forefront of things, started bringing these headlines into the comics. ... 1 of the biggest steps we took in this direction came in Captain America. I enjoyed cartoon people of every kind. I drew equally many dissimilar types of people equally I could into the scenes I illustrated, and I loved drawing black people. I always found their features interesting and so much of their strength, spirit and wisdom written on their faces. I approached Stan, every bit I remember, with the idea of introducing an African-American hero and he took to it right away. ... I looked at several African-American magazines, and used them as the footing of inspiration for bringing The Falcon to life.[36]

Concurrent with his move to Curiosity, Colan also contributed several stories to Warren Publishing's line of black-and-white horror comics magazines, beginning with the six-folio tale "To Pay the Piper", past author Larry Ivie, in Eerie #two (March 1966). At that place and in subsequent stories for that magazine and its sister publication, Creepy, Colan would ink his own pencil work. His final original Warren story, "First Blood", appeared in Eerie #xi (Sept. 1967). The vast majority of these were written by Warren editor Archie Goodwin, with whom Colan would later collaborate on Curiosity's Iron Man.[24] [37]

Dracula and Batman [edit]

Colan in the 1970s illustrated the complete 70-consequence run of the acclaimed[38] [39] horror title The Tomb of Dracula [40] as well as most problems of writer Steve Gerber'southward cult hit Howard the Duck.[41]

Colan, already ane of Marvel's most well-established and prominent artists, said he had lobbied for the Tomb of Dracula assignment:

When I heard Marvel was putting out a Dracula book, I confronted [editor] Stan [Lee] about it and asked him to permit me do it. He didn't give me too much problem merely, as information technology turned out, he took that promise away, proverb he had promised it to Bill Everett. Well, right then and there I auditioned for it. Stan didn't know what I was up to, but I spent a day at home and worked upwardly a sample, using Jack Palance as my inspiration and sent information technology to Stan. I got a call that very twenty-four hour period: 'Information technology's yours.'[42]

Colan and Marv Wolfman created several supporting characters for the Dracula serial. They introduced Bract in The Tomb of Dracula #10 (July 1973)[43] and Lilith in Giant-Size Chillers #1 (June 1974).[44] Colan became the artist of Doctor Foreign volume 2 with issue #six (Feb. 1975) which introduced the Gaea character.[45] A crossover betwixt the two Colan-drawn series occurred in May 1976.[46] In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Colan's run on The Tomb of Dracula 5th on its list of the "Meridian 10 1970s Marvels". His work on Doctor Foreign was ranked 9th on the same list.[47] Colan's collaboration with Steve Gerber on the Howard the Duck series saw the championship character nominated past the All-Night Party, a fictional political political party, as their nominee in the Presidential campaign of 1976,[48] and led to Howard the Duck receiving thousands of write-in votes in the actual election.[49] The Gerber-Colan team created Md Bong in Howard the Duck #15 (Aug. 1977).[50] Gerber later said to Colan: "At that place really was most a telepathic connection there. I would see something in my mind, and that is what you would draw! I've never had that experience with another creative person earlier or since."[51]

Colan returned to DC in 1981,[52] post-obit a professional falling out with Marvel editor-in-main Jim Shooter.[53] Colan recalled 2 decades later that Shooter

... hated me. I was miserable. It was the worst experience ... one of the worst I've ever experienced. I had to exit Marvel considering of him. I wouldn't stay, and I ... left everything backside. I left a pension plan, everything. I would have stayed, but Shooter gave me such a rough time. In fact, the vice president [of Marvel] had been down in a meeting with me and Shooter, trying to pacify me and become me to stay. And I but wouldn't do information technology, crusade I could see the writing on the wall, and I knew where Shooter was heading, and I didn't want any more of it.[54]

He brought his shadowy, moody textures to Batman, serving every bit the grapheme's principal creative person from 1981 to 1986, penciling most problems of Detective Comics and Batman during this time. His debut issue of the character's eponymous series was #340 (October. 1981).[52] [55] With writer Gerry Conway, Colan revived the Golden Age supervillains Doctor Death in Batman #345 (March 1982)[56] and the Monk in Batman #350 (Aug. 1982)[57] and introduced Killer Croc in Detective Comics #523 (February. 1983).[58] Killer Croc appears in the 2016 alive-action movie Suicide Team, portrayed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.[59] Some other new character, Nightslayer, was created past Colan and Doug Moench in Detective Comics #529 (Aug. 1983).[threescore]

In the insert preview in DC Comics Presents #41 (Jan. 1982), writer Roy Thomas and Colan provided Wonder Woman with a stylized "WW" emblem on her bodice, replacing the traditional eagle.[61] The "WW" emblem, dissimilar the eagle, could be protected as a trademark and therefore had greater merchandising potential. Wonder Woman #288 (February 1982) premiered the new costume and an altered cover banner incorporating the "WW" keepsake.[62] Colan was one of several artists on Wonder Woman #300 (Feb. 1983)[63] [64] and stayed on the series until effect #305 wherein he and author Dan Mishkin reintroduced the character Circe to the rogues gallery of Wonder Woman's adversaries.[65] Steve Gerber and Colan reunited at DC to produce The Phantom Zone limited serial.[66] Helping to create new characters as well, Colan collaborated in the 1980s with The Tomb of Dracula writer Marv Wolfman on the 14-issue run of Nighttime Force featuring characters introduced in an insert preview in The New Teen Titans #21 (July 1982).[67] He was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited serial in 1985.[68] Additionally, Colan worked with Cary Bates on the 12-consequence run of Silverblade; with Greg Potter on the 12-outcome run of Jemm, Son of Saturn; and drew the showtime six bug of Doug Moench's 1987 revival of The Spectre.[24]

Colan folio from The Tomb of Dracula #forty (Jan. 1976). Inked by Tom Palmer.

Colan'south style, characterized by fluid figure drawing and extensive utilise of shadow, was unusual amid Silver Age comic artists,[69] and became more pronounced as his career progressed. He unremarkably worked equally a penciller, with Frank Giacoia and Tom Palmer as his most frequent inkers. Colan broke from the mass-market comic volume penciller/inker/colorist assembly-line arrangement by creating finished drawings in graphite and watercolor on such projects as the DC Comics miniseries Nathaniel Dusk (1984) and Nathaniel Sunset Two (1985–86), and the feature "Ragamuffins" in the Eclipse Comics umbrella series Eclipse #iii, 5, and 8 (1981–83), with frequent collaborator Don McGregor.[24]

Contained-comics work includes the Eclipse graphic novel Detectives Inc.: A Terror Of Dying Dreams (1985), written by McGregor and reprinted in sepia tone as an Eclipse miniseries in 1987, and the miniseries Predator: Hell & Hot Water for Dark Horse Comics. He contributed to Archie Comics in the late 1980s and early 1990s, drawing and occasionally writing a number of stories. His work there included penciling the lighthearted science-fiction series Jughead'due south Time Law #one-6 (July 1990–May 1991), and the 1990 ane-shot To Riverdale and Back Again, an adaptation of the NBC TV moving picture about the Archie characters 20 years subsequently, ambulation May 6, 1990; Stan Goldberg drew the parts featuring the characters in flashback as teens, while Colan drew adult characters, in a less cartoony style, and Mike Esposito inking both.[24]

Back at Curiosity, he collaborated again with Marv Wolfman and veteran inker Al Williamson on a new The Tomb of Dracula serial, and with Don McGregor on a Black Panther serial in the Marvel Comics Presents anthology, likewise as a six-issue adaptation of Clive Barker'due south "The Harrowers: Raiders of the Abyss."[24]

Later life and career [edit]

Colan did some insert artwork on Hellbilly Deluxe (released August 1998), the outset solo anthology of Rob Zombie, credited as Factor "The Mean Machine" Colan.[70] Unrealized projects around this time included the Marvel Music comic Elvis: Mystery Train, which went on hold, he said in 1996, "when Marvel ran into problems, so everything came to a halt. Correct now it's in limbo. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's son is writing information technology ..."[71]

In 1998, Colan and his Tomb of Dracula writing collaborator, Marv Wolfman, reteamed on Nighttime Horse Comics 3-outcome miniseries The Expletive of Dracula (July-Sept. 1998).[24] Saying the book required "a much younger and better-looking Dracula" than in their previous series, Colan used "my lawn-male child [every bit] my model. ... I asked him to practise the posing and he did."[54] For the same visitor early the next decade, Colan returned to vampires with the 2001 one-shot Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers, an bus that included writer Doug Petrie's xvi-folio "Nikki Goes Down", starring a 1970s vampire slayer seen in one episode of the namesake TV serial.[24]

Colan penciled the final pages of Blade vol. 3, #12 (Oct. 2007), the last issue of that series, drawing a flashback scene in which the graphic symbol dresses in his original outfit from the 1970s series The Tomb of Dracula. That same calendar month, for the anniversary issue Daredevil vol. 2, #100 (Oct. 2007), Colan penciled pages 18–20 of the 36-page story "Without Fear, Part 1"; the issue additionally reprinted the Colan-drawn Daredevil #90-91 (Aug.-Sept. 1972).[24]

In the late 1980s, Colan, in add-on to his art, taught at Manhattan's Schoolhouse of Visual Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology,[72] and had showings at the Bess Cutler Gallery in New York City and at the Elm Street Arts Gallery in Manchester, Vermont.[73] He had relocated to nearby Manchester Heart, Vermont, from New York City in 1990 or 1991, and was living in that location every bit of 2001.[72] Past 2009 at the latest, they had returned to New York Metropolis, settling in Brooklyn.[74] [75] [76]

On May 11, 2008, his family unit announced that Colan, who had been hospitalized for liver failure, had suffered a abrupt deterioration in his health.[77] By Dec, he had sufficiently recovered to travel to an in-shop signing in California.[78] He continued to produce original comics work as belatedly every bit 2009, cartoon the 40-page Captain America #601 (Sept. 2009), for which he won an Eisner Honor.[79]

Personal life [edit]

Gene Colan was married twice: first to Sallee Greenberg, with whom he had children Valerie and Jill before the couple divorced, and Adrienne Brickman, with whom he had children Erik and Nanci.[4] [80] Adrienne Colan died on June 21, 2010.[81]

Colan died in the Bronx on June 23, 2011, aged 84, following complications of cancer and liver illness.[4] He lived in Brooklyn at the fourth dimension of his death.[1]

Awards and honors [edit]

Colan'southward collaboration with Steve Gerber on Howard the Duck received the 1977[82] and 1978[83] Hawkeye Award for Favorite Comic Book (Humor) and was nominated for four Eagle Awards in 1978.[83] Colan received an Inkpot Award in 1978 besides.[84]

In 2005, Colan was inducted into the comics manufacture's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.[85] He subsequently won the 2010 Eisner Accolade for Best Unmarried Upshot (together with author Ed Brubaker) for his work on Captain America #601 (Sept. 2009).[79]

The Cartoon Fine art Museum in San Francisco presented the retrospective "Colan: Visions of a Man without Fright" from November xv, 2008, to March 15, 2009.[73] [86]

Colan was the recipient of the 2008 Sparky Award, presented December 4, 2008[87] and won the Comic Fine art Professional Society'southward Sergio Award on October 24, 2009.[88]

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  • Crime Can't Win #i (1950)
  • Crimefighters #1–2 (1948)
  • Daredevil #20–49, 53–82, 84–100, 110, 112, 116, 124, 153–154, 156–157, 363, 366–368, 370, #-i, Annual #one (1966–1979, 1997)
  • Daredevil vol. ii #twenty (2001)
  • Doctor Foreign #172–178, 180–183 (1968–1969)
  • Dr. Strange, vol. 2, #half-dozen–eighteen, 36–45, 47 (1975–1981)
  • Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #19 (1990)
  • Dracula Lives #6, 8 (1973–1974)
  • Frontier Western #one–ii, 6 (1956)
  • Thou.I. Tales #v–half dozen (1957)
  • Giant-Size Chillers #1 (Dracula) (1974)
  • Girl Comics #iv (1950)
  • Gunhawk #16, 18 (1951)
  • Gunsmoke Western #35-39, 42, 72, 76 (1956–1963)
  • Harrowers #1–half-dozen (1993–1994)
  • Haunt of Horror #2 (1974)
  • Howard the Duck #4–xx, 24–27, 30–31 (1976–1979)
  • Howard the Duck magazine #1–5, 7–9 (1979–1981)
  • Hulk! #xi, nineteen, 24–27 (1978–1981)
  • Ideal #4 (1948)
  • Iron Human being #1, 253, Annual #x, 13, fifteen (1968, 1989–1994)
  • Iron Man and Sub-Mariner #1 (1968)
  • Journey into Mystery #ii, 23, forty, 81-82 (1952-1962)
  • Journeying into Mystery vol. 2 #4 (1973)
  • Journey Into Unknown Worlds #2, six, 17, 19-20, 23, 29, 39 (1950–55)
  • Justice #4–v, 7, 22, 32, 35–36, 46 (1948–54)
  • Child Colt Outlaw #52, 79, 110, 112, 114 (1955–64)
  • Lawbreakers Always Lose #one–2, 6 (1948–49)
  • Love Adventures #2 (1950)
  • Honey Romances #101 (1962)
  • Love Tales #62 (1955)
  • Loveland #1 (1949)
  • Lovers #26 (1949)
  • Human being Comics #9, 13, 21, 23 (1951-1953)
  • Marines at War #5-7 (1957)
  • Marines in Activity #5-half-dozen, 11-12 (1956-1957)
  • Marines in Boxing #one, nine-10, 17, nineteen-25 (1954-1958)
  • Curiosity Comics Presents #xiii–37, 101–108, 112 (1989-1992)
  • Marvel Fanfare #51-52 (1990)
  • Marvel Preview #8, sixteen, 23 (1976-1980)
  • Curiosity Romance Redux: But I Thought He Loved Me #ane (2006)
  • Marvel Romance Redux: Guys & Dolls #1 (2006)
  • Marvel Romance Redux: I Should Accept Been a Blonde #1 (2006)
  • Marvel Romance Redux: Love Is a Four-Letter of the alphabet Give-and-take #1 (2006)
  • Curiosity Spotlight #18-19 (Son of Satan) (1974)
  • Marvel Super-Heroes #12–xiii (Captain Curiosity), 15 (Medusa), 18 (Guardians of the Galaxy) (1967-1969)
  • Curiosity Super Special #6 (Jaws 2 movie accommodation); ten (Star-Lord); #14 (Meteor pic accommodation) (1978-1979)
  • Marvel Tales #93-94, 96, 101, 105, 107, 118, 120-121, 127, 131, 140 (1949-1955)
  • Marvel Team-Up #87 (1979)
  • Men's Adventures #xiii-14, 19, 26 (1952-1954)
  • Menace #6 (1953)
  • Midnight Sons Unlimited #6 (1994)
  • Monsters Unleashed #1 (1973)
  • My Love #3 (1950)
  • My Dearest vol. ii #4-half-dozen, 8-nine, 13, fifteen-16 (1970-1972)
  • My Ain Romance #eleven, 18, 44 (1950–55)
  • Mystery Tales #1, 3, 18, 35, 43 (1952-1956)
  • Mystic #3, 7, 12, 21, 37, 60 (1951-1957)
  • Navy Action #8, ten-11, 16-18 (1955-1957)
  • Navy Gainsay #four, 6, 11, 13-18 (1955-1958)
  • Navy Tales #3-iv (1957)
  • Non Brand Echh #4-5, eight-9, 13 (1967-1969)
  • Our Beloved #i (1949)
  • Our Dear Story #3-six, 8, 10 (1970-1971)
  • Outlaw Fighters #4 (1955)
  • Police Activity #1 (1954)
  • Quick-Trigger Western #xiii, 16 (1956-1957)
  • Rangeland Love #1 (1949)
  • Rawhide Kid #35, 37-38 (1963-1964)
  • Richie Rich #1 (movie adaptation) (1995)
  • Riot #1 (1954)
  • Savage Sword of Conan #33 (1978)
  • Barbarous Tales #1 (1971)
  • Surreptitious Story Romances #ix (1954)
  • Silver Surfer #1–3 (The Watcher backup stories) (1968)
  • Six-Gun Western #iii (1957)
  • Spellbound #17, 28 (1953-1956)
  • Sports Action #3 (1950)
  • Spy Cases #i (1950)
  • Strange Stories of Suspense #13 (1957)
  • Strange Tales #7-8, 11, 18, 20, 26, 53, 58-59, 97 (1952-1962); #169–173 (Blood brother Voodoo) (1973-1974)
  • Sub-Mariner #10–11, twoscore, 43, 46-49 (1969-1972)
  • Suspense #2-4, 9, 17 (1950-1952)
  • Tales of Justice #62 (1956)
  • Tales of Suspense #39 (1963); #73–99 (Iron Human being) (1966-1968)
  • Tales of the Zombie #2, 6 (1973–1974)
  • Tales to Astonish (Sub-Mariner) #lxx–77, 79–82, 84–85, 101 (1965-1968)
  • Teen-Age Romance #85-86 (1962)
  • Tex Morgan #4 (1949)
  • Thunderbolts Annual '97 (among others) (1997)
  • The Tomb of Dracula #1–70 (1972-1979)
  • The Tomb of Dracula magazine #three–6 (1979-1980)
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 3 #1-4 (1991-1992)
  • Tower of Shadows #3–four, half-dozen (1970)
  • True Life Tales #1 (1949)
  • True Secrets #38 (1956)
  • True Western #1 (1949)
  • Two-Gun Kid #49 (1959)
  • Two-Gun Western #4–5 (1956)
  • Uncanny Tales #11, 16-17, 45, 49, 52 (1953-1957)
  • Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1, three, v-half-dozen (1975)
  • Venus #12 (1951)
  • War Activity #14 (1953)
  • War Adventures #6-7 (1952)
  • War Gainsay #3 (1952)
  • War Comics #1, iv, 28, 31, 34-36, 39, 41, 44-49 (1950-1957)
  • Western Gunfighters #20, 25-27 (1956-1957)
  • Western Outlaws #5, 10-11, 17, 20 (1954-1957)
  • What If (Fantastic Four) #21 (1980)
  • Wild #4 (1954)
  • Wild W #2 (1948)
  • Wild Western #49 (1956)
  • Wolverine #nine, 24 (1989–1990)
  • World of Fantasy #x (1958)
  • Globe of Mystery #6 (1957)
  • Young Hearts #ii (1950)
  • Immature Men on the Battefield #14–15, twenty (1952–1953)

Ziff-Davis Publishing [edit]

  • Lars of Mars #10–eleven (1951)

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Farther reading [edit]

  • Meth, Clifford, ed. The Invincible Cistron Colan (Curiosity Entertainment, 2010) ISBN 978-0-9797602-vi-6
  • Field, Tom, Secrets in the Shadows: The Fine art & Life of Gene Colan (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2005) ISBN 1-893905-45-iv

External links [edit]

  • "Factor 'The Dean' Colan Virtual Studio". (Official site). Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Boosted with some links disabled, archived from the original on March xx, 2011.
  • "Cistron Colan Interview". SlayerLit.united states. c. 2007. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011.
  • "Gene Colan Expressionless at the Age of 84". Comic Book Resources. June 24, 2011. Archived from the original on December x, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2011. (Archived link requires scrolldown.)
  • "DC Profiles #89: Factor Colan" at the Grand Comics Database
  • Gene Colan at Mike's Amazing Globe of Comics
  • Gene Colan at the Unofficial Handbook of Curiosity Comics Creators
  • Comic Geek Speak Podcast Interview (December 2005)
  • The Ohio State Academy Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Fine art Database

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