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Gene Colan
Born: Sep 1, 1926 Gene Colan began working in comics in 1944 at Fiction House drawing Wings Comics. After spending the remainder of WWII in the Air Force, Gene spent about a year in the Art Students League. He then tried showing work to both National (DC) and Timely (Marvel) Comics. Stan Lee at Timely Comics was impressed enough to hire Gene for around sixty odd dollars a week. He worked on Menace, Mystic, and Journey into Mystery there before heading over to DC for a while to do Sea Devils and Hopalong Cassidy. Returning to Marvel Comics in the 60s, Gene worked on Silver Surfer, Iron Man, and Dr. Strange. Especially notable were his long runs on Daredevil and Tomb of Dracula (with Marv Wolfman). In the 80s, Gene did some more work over at DC including Night Force (again with Marv Wolfman) and the notable series Nathaniel Dusk. Nathaniel Dusk is notable as Gene has always enjoyed the detective genre, and it was one of the first times a book went to press with colors done directly over the pencils (no inking involved). Most recently he returned to Daredevil for a short stint and did the art for the Curse of Dracula mini-series (with Wolfman) for Dark Horse.
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