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Gene Colan

Penciller on 1,572 issues · inker on 463 issues · cover artist on 432 issues

Gene Colan is credited as penciller on 1,572 issues, inker on 463 issues, cover artist on 432 issues, writer on 5 issues and others in grailworth's catalog, 1,229 issues of them across 243 series we value. That includes 7 key issues, such as Captain America #117 (1968), Iron Man #1 (1968) and Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967). Characters first seen in issues they wrote or drew include Tony Stark, Iron Man, Wong-Chu and Professor Yinsen.

Key issues

Characters they introduced

Cover of Tales of Suspense #39 (1959) Tales of Suspense #39 (1959)First appearance of Tony Stark (Iron Man)1963Cover of Tales of Suspense #39 (1959) Tales of Suspense #39 (1959)First appearance of Iron Man (Tony Stark)1963Cover of Tales of Suspense #39 (1959) Tales of Suspense #39 (1959)First appearance of Wong-Chu (from Iron Man)1963Cover of Tales of Suspense #39 (1959) Tales of Suspense #39 (1959)First appearance of Professor Yinsen (from Iron Man)1963Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967)First appearance of Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)1967Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967)First appearance of Yon-Rogg (Magnitron, Marvel)1967Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967)First appearance of Una (Kree, Marvel)1967Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967)First appearance of Zarek (Kree, Marvel)1967Cover of Silver Surfer #1 (1968) Silver Surfer #1 (1968)First appearance (also in flashback) of Shalla-Bal1968Cover of Silver Surfer #1 (1968) Silver Surfer #1 (1968)First appearance (also in flashback) of Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)1968Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Charlie-27 (typically from Earth-691)1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Martinex1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Vance Astro1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Yondu (Yondu Udonta)1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Betina Marsh (Earth-691)1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Drang (Earth-691)1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance (unnamed) of Maul (Earth-691)1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Maz (Earth-691)1969Cover of Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967) Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1967)First appearance of Yur (Earth-691; Badoon)1969Cover of Captain America #117 (1968) Captain America #117 (1968)First appearance of Falcon (Sam Wilson)1969Cover of Captain America #117 (1968) Captain America #117 (1968)First appearance of Redwing (Falcon's bird)1969Cover of Tomb of Dracula #10 (1972) Tomb of Dracula #10 (1972)First appearance of Eric Brooks (Blade)1973Cover of Tomb of Dracula #10 (1972) Tomb of Dracula #10 (1972)First appearance of Blade (Eric Brooks)1973Cover of Men's Adventures #26 (1950) Men's Adventures #26 (1950)First appearance of Gorilla-Man (Ken Hale, Marvel)1954

Every issue

2 Gun Western (1956) 1 issue

2099 Unlimited (1993) 1 issue

Adventures into Terror (1950) 9 issues

All-American Men of War (1952) 9 issues

Amazing Adventures (1970) 4 issues

Amazing Detective Cases (1950) 1 issue

Amazing Mysteries (1949) 2 issues

Approved Comics (1954) 1 issue

Archie Comics Digest (1973) 1 issue

Archie Halloween Spectacular (2022) 1 issue

Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (1952) 2 issues

Astonishing (1951) 4 issues

Astonishing Tales (1970) 4 issues

Attack (1971) 1 issue

Authentic Police Cases (1948) 4 issues

Avengers (1963) 8 issues

Baffling Mysteries (1951) 4 issues

Batman (1940) 10 issues

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000) 1 issue

Battle (1951) 18 issues

Battle Action (1952) 8 issues

Battlefield (1952) 2 issues

Battlefront (1952) 12 issues

The Best of DC (1979) 3 issues

The Beverly Hillbillies (1963) 1 issue

Beware (1973) 1 issue

The Beyond (1950) 4 issues

Black Rider (1950) 1 issue

Blackhawk (1944) 1 issue

Blackhawk (1957) 3 issues

Blade (2006) 1 issue

Blazing Combat (1965) 2 issues

Blazing Combat (1978) 1 issue

Capt. Storm (1964) 3 issues

Captain America (1968) 25 issues

Captain America (2005) 1 issue

Captain America Comics (1941) 2 issues

Captain Marvel (1968) 3 issues

Chamber of Chills (1972) 3 issues

Clive Barker's The Harrowers (1993) 5 issues

Combat (1952) 2 issues

Combat (1961) 1 issue

Combat Kelly (1951) 1 issue

Complete Mystery (1948) 1 issue

Conan Saga (1987) 1 issue

Crazy (1973) 1 issue

Creepy (1964) 4 issues

Creepy (2009) 1 issue

Crime and Punishment (1948) 1 issue

Crime Does Not Pay (1942) 2 issues

Crimefighters (1948) 3 issues

Crypt of Shadows (1973) 1 issue

The Curse of Dracula (1998) 1 issue

Daredevil (1964) 95 issues

Daredevil (1998) 3 issues

Dark Horse Presents (1986) 1 issue

DC Challenge (1985) 1 issue

DC Comics Presents (1978) 1 issue

DC Sampler (1983) 1 issue

DC Special (1968) 1 issue

Detective Comics (1937) 35 issues

Doctor Strange (1968) 11 issues

Doctor Strange (1974) 29 issues

Dracula Lives (1973) 4 issues

Eerie (1965) 11 issues

Elvira's House of Mystery (1986) 1 issue

Everything's Archie (1969) 2 issues

Falling in Love (1955) 11 issues

Fantasy Masterpieces (1966) 1 issue

Fear (1970) 1 issue

Fightin' Marines (1951) 10 issues

Fightin' Marines (1955) 4 issues

The Fury of Firestorm (1982) 1 issue

Fury of Firestorm Annual (1983) 1 issue

G.I. Combat (1957) 1 issue

G.I. Tales (1957) 2 issues

Giant-Size Chillers (1975) 2 issues

Giant-Size Daredevil (1975) 1 issue

Giant-Size Defenders (1974) 1 issue

Giant-Size Kid Colt (1975) 1 issue

Giant-Size Marvel Triple Action (1975) 1 issue

Girl Confessions (1952) 1 issue

Girls' Love Stories (1949) 13 issues

Girls' Romances (1950) 10 issues

Goofy Adventures (1990) 1 issue

Gunsmoke Western (1955) 8 issues

Haunt of Horror (1974) 1 issue

Heart Throbs (1949) 2 issues

Heart Throbs (1957) 8 issues

Hellboy: Weird Tales (2003) 1 issue

Hopalong Cassidy (1954) 36 issues

House of Mystery (1951) 1 issue

House of Secrets (1956) 1 issue

Howard the Duck (1976) 28 issues

Howard the Duck (1977) 1 issue

Howard the Duck (1979) 9 issues

Howard the Duck Annual (1977) 1 issue

Hulk (1978) 7 issues

The Human Torch (1940) 1 issue

Ideal (1948) 1 issue

Incredible Hulk (1962) 1 issue

The Invincible Iron Man (2007) 1 issue

Iron Man (1968) 5 issues

Iron Man & Sub-Mariner (1968) 1 issue

Iron Man Special (1970) 1 issue

Jemm, Son of Saturn (1984) 12 issues

Journey into Mystery (1952) 6 issues

Journey into Mystery (1972) 2 issues

Journey into Unknown Worlds (1950) 8 issues

Jughead (1987) 1 issue

Jughead's Time Police (1990) 4 issues

Jungle Action (1972) 1 issue

Justice (1947) 3 issues

Ka-Zar (1970) 1 issue

Kid Colt Outlaw (1949) 15 issues

Lars of Mars (1951) 2 issues

The Legion of Super-Heroes (1980) 2 issues

Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) 1 issue

Life with Archie (1958) 7 issues

Little Shop of Horrors (1987) 1 issue

Love Romances (1949) 2 issues

Love Tales (1949) 1 issue

The Man Called Nova (1978) 1 issue

Marines in Battle (1954) 2 issues

Marvel Classics Comics (1976) 3 issues

Marvel Comics Presents (1988) 34 issues

Marvel Double Feature (1973) 19 issues

Marvel Fanfare (1982) 2 issues

Marvel Milestones: Blade, Man-Thing & Satana (2005) 1 issue

The Marvel No-Prize Book (1983) 1 issue

Marvel Preview (1975) 4 issues

The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985) 4 issues

Marvel Spotlight (1971) 2 issues

Marvel Super Action (1977) 3 issues

Marvel Super Special (1978) 3 issues

Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) 18 issues

Marvel Tales (1949) 13 issues

Marvel Tales (1966) 1 issue

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 1 issue

Marvel Treasury Edition (1974) 5 issues

Marvel's Space-Born Superhero! Captain Marvel (1968) 1 issue

Men's Adventures (1950) 5 issues

Menace (1953) 2 issues

Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) 1 issue

The Mighty Marvel Western (1968) 1 issue

Millie the Model (1966) 1 issue

Monsters on the Prowl (1971) 2 issues

Monsters Unleashed (1973) 2 issues

My Greatest Adventure (1955) 5 issues

My Love (1949) 1 issue

My Love (1969) 19 issues

My Own Romance (1949) 1 issue

Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (1956) 1 issue

Mystery in Space (1951) 2 issues

Mystery Tales (1952) 5 issues

Mystic (1951) 5 issues

Nathaniel Dusk (1984) 4 issues

Nathaniel Dusk II (1985) 4 issues

New Teen Titans (1980) 1 issue

The Night Force (1982) 14 issues

Night Force (1996) 1 issue

Nightmare (1953) 1 issue

Not Brand Echh (1967) 5 issues

Our Army at War (1952) 20 issues

Our Fighting Forces (1954) 5 issues

Our Love Story (1969) 18 issues

Out of This World (1956) 1 issue

The Outer Limits (1964) 1 issue

The Phantom Stranger (1952) 1 issue

The Phantom Zone (1982) 4 issues

Rangers Comics (1942) 1 issue

The Rawhide Kid (1960) 8 issues

Real Life Comics (1941) 1 issue

The Ringo Kid (1970) 1 issue

Sabre (1982) 1 issue

The Savage Return of Dracula (1992) 1 issue

Savage Tales (1971) 1 issue

Sea Devils (1961) 1 issue

Secret Hearts (1949) 24 issues

Secret Origins (1986) 1 issue

Sensation Mystery (1952) 1 issue

Silver Surfer (1968) 3 issues

Silver Surfer vs. Dracula (1994) 1 issue

Silverblade (1987) 12 issues

The Spectre (1987) 6 issues

Spellbound (1952) 2 issues

Sports Action (1950) 1 issue

Star Spangled War Stories (1952) 6 issues

Strange Adventures (1950) 2 issues

Strange Stories of Suspense (1955) 1 issue

Strange Suspense Stories (1955) 1 issue

Strange Tales (1951) 11 issues

Strange Tales (1973) 6 issues

Sub-Mariner (1968) 8 issues

Suspense (1949) 7 issues

Tales of Suspense (1959) 28 issues

Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) 1 issue

Tales to Astonish (1959) 19 issues

Tales to Astonish (1979) 2 issues

Teen-Age Romance (1960) 2 issues

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (1989) 1 issue

Thunderbolts (2006) 1 issue

Tomb of Darkness (1974) 2 issues

Tomb of Dracula (1972) 70 issues

The Tomb of Dracula (1979) 5 issues

Tomb of Dracula (1991) 4 issues

Tower of Shadows (1969) 3 issues

Treehouse of Horror (1995) 1 issue

Two Gun Kid (1953) 4 issues

Two Gun Western (1950) 1 issue

Two Gun Western (1956) 1 issue

Two-Fisted Tales (1950) 2 issues

Two-Gun Kid (1948) 2 issues

Uncanny Tales (1952) 6 issues

The Unexpected (1968) 1 issue

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction (1975) 4 issues

Unusual Tales (1955) 1 issue

Vault of Evil (1973) 3 issues

Venus (1948) 1 issue

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (2009) 1 issue

War Adventures (1952) 2 issues

War Comics (1950) 11 issues

War Is Hell (1973) 2 issues

Web of Mystery (1951) 1 issue

Weird War Tales (1971) 1 issue

Weird Wonder Tales (1973) 2 issues

Western Comics (1948) 1 issue

Western Gunfighters (1956) 3 issues

Western Gunfighters (1970) 2 issues

Western Outlaws (1954) 3 issues

Western Outlaws and Sheriffs (1949) 1 issue

Western Thrillers (1954) 1 issue

What If? (1977) 2 issues

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 1 issue

Wild Western (1948) 1 issue

Wings Comics (1940) 1 issue

Wolverine (1988) 2 issues

Wonder Woman (1942) 18 issues

World of Fantasy (1956) 1 issue

World's Finest Comics (1941) 4 issues

Young Love (1963) 5 issues

Young Men (1950) 1 issue

Young Romance (1963) 7 issues

Credits from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.