Jose Bea
From Hey Kids Comics
Personal History
Personal History of Jose Bea is unknown.
Professional History
Jose Bea (also known as Josep Bea or Jose Maria Bea Font) is a Spanish comic book artist, born in 1942.
Biography
Jose Bea started his comic book career in the late 1950s when he worked for Fleetway in Britain. He also worked on Miller's TV Heroes during this period. In the early 1960s he worked on Space Ace for Atlas, as well as Lone Star. In 1962 Bea moved to Paris where he focused on painting rather than comic book art. In 1971 he returned to comic books, working on Dracula and Marilyn.
Due to his connections with the Spanish agency Selecciones Illustrada, Bea started working for Warren Publishing in America in 1971. Bea worked on artwork for all three of Warren's horror titles, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, and also wrote a number of his stories. This would include the three part series Tales of Peter Hypnos as well as numerous stand alone stories. His work for Dracula was reprinted in a separate book published by Warren, as well as the story Invasion in Eerie 75. Bea would draw approximately 30 stories for Warren, as well as two covers (one of which was a reprinted, colored panel from one of his stories).
After his departure from Warren in 1976, Bea worked on Tales of the Galactic Inn. In 1979 he was convicted for offenses against morality for the content of one of his stories in this title, and was forbidden from doing anymore artwork. Once this ban was lifted, he worked on the magazine Rambla with Luis Garcia, as well as a number of humor magazines.
Art Credits
2 total covers
32 total stories
1 total frontis
Creepy
- Like A Phone Booth, Long and Narrow - Creepy 44 (1972)
- The Picture of Death - Creepy 45 (1972)
- I, Invisible - Creepy 46 (1972)
- Creepy's Loathsome Lore: Not Sherlock By A Long Shot - Creepy 47 (1972) (Frontis)
- The Accursed Flower - Creepy 49 (1972)
- Side-Show - Creepy 50 (1973)
- Package Deal - Creepy 51 (1973)
- Them Thar Flyin' Things! - Creepy 52 (1973)
- The Creature of Loch Ness! - Creepy 53 (1973)
- The Way of All Flesh - Creepy 56 (1973)
- The Red Badge of Terror - Creepy 57 (1973)
- Shriek Well Before Dying! - Creepy 58 (1973)
- The Blood Colored Bike - Creepy 61 (1974)
- The Fable of Bald Sheba and Montebank the Rouge - Creepy 80 (1976)
Eerie
- Head Shop - Eerie 39 (1972)
- The Prodigy Son - Eerie 40 (1972)
- Heir Pollution! - Eerie 41 (1972)
- The Incredible People Making Machines - Eerie 72 (1976)
- Voyage to the Final Hole - Eerie 73 (1976)
- Cover - Eerie 75 (1976)
- Invasion - Eerie 75 (1976)
- The Silver Key - Eerie 76 (1976)
Vampirella
- The Silver Thief and the Pharoah's Daughter - Vampirella 13 (1971)
- Quavering Shadows - Vampirella 15 (1972)
- A Man's World - Vampirella 17 (1972)
- The Sentence! - Vampirella 22 (1973)
- The Accursed - Vampirella 23 (1973)
- The Dead Howl at Midnight! - Vampirella 25 (1973)
- Fringe Benefits - Vampirella 26 (1973)
- The Other Side of Heaven! - Vampirella 28 (1973)
- The Strange, Incureable Phobia… …of Mad Pierre Langlois! - Vampirella 31 (1974)
- Recurrence! - Vampirella 34 (1974)
- Puppet-Player! - Vampirella 36 (1974)
- Jewel in the Mouth of a Snake - Vampirella 49 (1976)
1994
- Cover - 1994 13 (1980)
Notes: Invasion was originally published in Spain before being reprinted here.
Writer Credits
11 total stories
Creepy
- The Picture of Death - Creepy 45 (1972)
- I, Invisible - Creepy 46 (1972)
- The Accursed Flower - Creepy 49 (1972)
- The Blood Colored Bike - Creepy 61 (1974)
Eerie
- The Incredible People Making Machines - Eerie 72 (1976)
- Voyage to the Final Hole - Eerie 73 (1976)
- The Silver Key - Eerie 76 (1976)
Vampirella
- The Other Side of Heaven! - Vampirella 28 (1973)
- The Strange, Incureable Phobia… …of Mad Pierre Langlois! - Vampirella 31 (1974)
- Puppet-Player! - Vampirella 36 (1974)
- Jewel in the Mouth of a Snake - Vampirella 49 (1976)
Notes
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Trivia
- No trivia.
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