Pablo Marcos (Pablo Marcos Ortega) is a comic book artist, and is best known as one of his home country’s leading cartoonists and for his work on popular American comic characters such as Batman and Conan the Barbarian, particularly during the 1970’s.

His signature character was Marvel Comics’ the Zombie, for which Marcos drew all but one story in the black-and-white horror-comics magazine Tales of the Zombie (1973–75).

American Comics.

Marcos moved to New Jersey in the U.S. in the 1970’s. Warren Publishing art director Billy Graham assigned him his first American-comics work, penciling and inking the six-page story “The Water World”, by writer Buddy Sounders, in Warren’s black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy #39 (May 1971). After another Creepy story and one in companion magazine Eerie that year, Marcos drew comics exclusively for rival Skywald Publications’ Nightmare and Psycho from May 1972 to May 1973 cover-dates. Skywald co-founder Sol Brodsky introduced Marcos to fellow Peruvian artist Boris Vallejo, who became a mentor of his.

When Brodsky, who had been Marvel Comics’ production manager, left Skywald to return to Marvel, he brought Marcos along as an artist and later on as his staff assistant for roughly two months. Marcos began drawing covers for Marvel UK titles featuring such characters and features as Captain Britain, “Planet of the Apes”, and Dracula. Marcos’ naturalistic, “illustrative” style, became a mainstay of Marvel’s black-and-white horror-comics magazines Dracula Lives, Monsters Unleashed, Tales of the Zombie, Vampire Tales and others, and the exposure afforded by industry leader Marvel made Marcos a popular artist of the 1970s.

His first color-comics