Pablo Marcos was born in the small town of Laran, Chincha Alta, Peru, and moved with his family to the capital, Lima, at age five.
14 Facts About Pablo Marcos
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Pablo Marcos later contributed caricatures to such weekly political magazines as Rochabus and Zamba Canuta while still an economics major at Peru's University of Lima.
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Pablo Marcos became art director of the newspaper Expreso, working as well on its evening edition, Extra, and a weekly supplement, Estampa.
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Pablo Marcos became nationally known in 1965, following his illustrations for the trial and execution by firing squad of a convicted rapist.
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Pablo Marcos began freelancing for the Mexican publishing company Editorial Novaro and in 1968 moved with his family to Mexico.
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Pablo Marcos was responsible of Hata-Yoga a comic of mystic flavor where the superior mind could solve important problems.
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Pable Pablo Marcos, recognized as an artist collaborate in several other comics of editorial Novaro.
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Pablo Marcos began drawing covers for such Marvel UK titles featuring such characters and features as Captain Britain, "Planet of the Apes", and Dracula.
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Pablo Marcos next freelanced for DC Comics, drawing Man-Bat stories in Detective Comics, and working on an issue or two each of series including Freedom Fighters, Kamandi, Kobra, Secret Society of Super-Villains, and Teen Titans before returning to Marvel to do art for issues of The Avengers, The Mighty Thor and other comics.
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In 1980, Pablo Marcos additionally freelanced for an Italian comic-book series, Tremila Dollari per Ebenezer Cross Western Story, and created the series "Dragon" for the Mexican magazine Ejea.
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Pablo Marcos reduced his workload in September 1985 in order to tend to his severely ill wife.
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Pablo Marcos returned as an inker two years later on a handful of issues of CrossGen's Ruse, Mystic, Crux, and Silken Ghost through 2003, and did penciling from 2006 to 2008, on comics including Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja and Savage Tales.
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Pablo Marcos married Norma Martinez in 1960, and the couple had a child, Judith, that same year.
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Pablo Marcos reduced his workload in September 1985 in order to tend to his severely ill wife, a patient at New York University Medical Center, who died in November 1985.