Ramón Torrents (born 6 December 1937) is a Spanish

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artist.

Career

Ramón Torrents was born in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...

, northern Spain. He began his career drawing for the comic ''Space Ace''. He later worked on romance comics for British publisher

Fleetway Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London. It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies that merg ...

, including ''Marilyn'' and ''True Life Library''. In the late 1960s, Torrents worked with

Esteban Maroto Esteban Maroto (born 1942) is a Spanish Comics, comic book artist. 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 retouche ...

in the Spanish science fiction series ''Cinco x Infinito''. Through his connections with agency Selecciones Ilustradas, Torrents began working for American company

Warren Publishing Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades. Magazines published by Warren include '' After Hours'', '' Creepy'', '' Eerie'', '' F ...

in 1972. For them, he drew 42 stories until 1979. The majority of his work appeared in ''

Vampirella Vampirella () is a fictional vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine ''Vampirella'' #1 (Sept. 1969), a sister publication of '' Cre ...

'', with 8 stories done for ''

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'' and one story done for ''

Eerie ''Eerie'' was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like '' Mad'', it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's volunta ...

''. Torrents drew primarily stand-alone stories except for a three part series titled ''Fleur'' and a single story where he drew Vampirella herself. Torrents also worked for Warren competitor

Skywald Skywald Publications was an American publisher of black-and-white comics magazines, primarily the horror fiction, horror anthologies ''Nightmare'', ''Psycho'', and ''Scream''. It also published a small line of comic books and other genre magazine ...

for a period of time in the early 1970s. After leaving Warren, Torrents retired from the comic book industry.

Bibliography

Interior art includes: * ''

'' #51-53, 57, 59, 65, 92 * ''

'' #50, 81, 133, * ''

'' #23-26, 28–29, 35–36, 40, 44, 47–48, 49, 52, 57–58, 61–63, 67–68, 70, 76

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Ramon Torrents biography
on Lambiek Comiclopedia 1938 births Living people People from Barcelona Spanish comics artists 20th-century Spanish artists {{Spain-artist-stub