Dracula Magazine - New English Library, Esteban Maroto, Warren, Dax the Warrior

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[font:Arial Black]Esteban Maroto[/font]

Area(s)

 

Penciller, Inker

 

Notable works

 

1984

Creepy

Eerie

Vampirella

 

Career

 

Born in Madrid, he began his career in the 1960s with series like Cinco por infinito, published in English by Continuity Comics

as "Zero Patrol" (heavily retouched by editor Neal Adams).

 

'Wolff' by Maroto was published in the UK by New English Library in the magazine Dracula. Dracula was published

in the US by the Warren Publishing Company under the title Dracula Book 1 in 1972; the cover was by Esteban Maroto.

 

In the 1970s he started to be known in his own country when the magazine Trinca published Alma de Dragón.

He designed the "metal bikini" for the character Red Sonja, in Savage Tales #3, Comixscene #5, and in the

first issue of The Savage Sword of Conan and pencilled her first solo story, which was inked by Neal Adams

and Ernie Chan. He also redesigned Satana for Marvel Comics

and drew her second solo story

in Vampire Tales #3. In issue 4 of the same series he drew an outstanding adaptation of the short story

"The Drifting Snow" by August Derleth.

 

Maroto joined Warren Publishing in November 1971 when artists from the Spanish agency Selleciones Illustrada

started appearing in the their three horror magazines, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. Maroto's first story,

"Wolfhunt", appeared in Vampirella #14. Maroto quickly became one of the most well known and critically

acclaimed Spanish artists at Warren. He would eventually draw

101 stories for them, more than

any other artist except Jose Ortiz. Maroto won the Warren Award for best artist/writer in 1972, and his story

"A Scream in the Forest" won the best art in a story award in 1973. Maroto remained with Warren until its folding in 1983.

 

Two Maroto's series were reprinted in Eerie and Vampirella. Manly, renamed Dax the Warrior, was reprinted in issues

39-41, 43-50 and 52 of Eerie. All of issue 59 was dedicated to Dax,

which reprinted again the majority

of these stories. His series Tomb of the Gods was reprinted in Vampirella issues 17 through 22.

 

He also contributed black and white illustrations for the Roger Zelazny book Changeling and Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away.

 

He later worked on the series Amethyst, Zatanna, Atlantis Chronicles, The Savage Sword of Conan, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs,

Dracula: Vlad the Impaler and X-Men Unlimited.

In Italy, he worked for Sergio Bonelli Editore's series Brendon.

 

Bibliography

 

Comics work (interior art) includes:

 

DC

Amethyst #1-4 (miniseries, 1987–88)

Atlantis Chronicles #1-7 (miniseries, 1990)

Dracula: Vlad the Impaler #1-3 (miniseries, 1993)

Zatanna #1-4 (miniseries, 1993)

 

Marvel

Savage Sword of Conan (Red Sonja) #1 (1974), 225, 230-233 (1994–95); (Conan) #217-218 (1994)

Savage Tales (Red Sonja) #3 (1974)

Vampire Tales (Satana) #3; #4 (1974)

X-Men Unlimited (Hellfire Club) #33 (2001)

 

Warren

1984 #1-6, 20-21, 24-28 (1978–82)

Creepy #46-47, 49-54, 64-65, 73, 80-82, 88, 92, 95-97 (1972–78)

Eerie #36, 38, 40-41, 43-48, 50, 52, 57-59, 63

Vampirella #14, 16-18, 20-27, 31, 34-42, 45, 49-50, 53, 57-58, 60, 62-63,

67-68, 71-72, 74, 80, 93-94, 98-99, 102-103, 106-107, 111-112 (1971–83)

Other Publishers

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs #3, 6-9 (Topps, 1994)

Verotika #3 (Verotik, 1995)

Wizard Presents: Lady Rawhide #1/2 (Topps, 1996)

Zero Patrol #1-2 (Continuity, 1984–85)

Zero Patrol (vol. 2) #1-5 (Continuity, 1987–89)

Conan the Mercenary [illustrator]. Ace Books, 1980.

Conan: The Treasure of Tranicos [illustrator]. Ace Books, 1982.

Conan: The Flame Knife [illustrator]. Ace Books, 1981.

Conan and the Sorcerer [illustrator]. Ace Books, 1979.

Wolff (story),in "Dracula" magazine, [illustrator]. New English Library, #1-12, 1971-72.

Criticism

 

Maroto was accused of plagiarism of some illustrations from Tarzan and Prince Valiant (Hal Foster), Idyl (Jeff Jones),

Flash Gordon (Alex Raymond) and more others.[1]

References

1.^ Fanzine El Wendigo nº 13, pp. 6-8, Agosto 1979.

External links

Official website

Examples of Maroto's work, including Red Sonja

Incomplete bibliography (French)

Video interview of Esteban Maroto

 

 

 

 

[Jaded Savage]

Love Maroto! Thanks for sharing! Those are some nice books.

[aardvark88]

Maroto is great but these mags are a little hard to store, as they were taller than regular US mags.

[The Troll King]

Anyone see the Dracula 1 that sold on eBay? I was high bidder at $26 within 30 minutes of close. It sold for over $190!

 

I didnt watch the end because I was fairly sure it was mine because of my max bid. Never would have thought it would go that high.

[batmiesta]

A full set just went for £62 on ebay UK.