Felix Mas is a Spanish

Spain

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 comic book artist

Comics

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 and fine artist

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.

Career

Felix Mas was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1935. He studied art at Saint Jordi and joined the military, where he stayed until 1957. After leaving the military he joined the Spanish art agency Seleciones Illustrada and started working for various romance comics for companies like Fleetway and Valentine. He also drew the detective story Lt. Kane for T.V. Heroes. During the 1960s Mas worked in Scandinavia

Scandinavia

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 as an illustrator. He returned to comics in 1969 with D.C. Thomson's Romeo.

Felix Mas joined Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing

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 in 1972 and drew a total of 17 horror stories for Creepy

Creepy

Creepy was an American horror-comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. The anthology magazine was initially published quarterly but...

 and Vampirella

Vampirella

Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and costume designer Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 . Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in...

 until January 1975. The story 'The Vampiress Stalks the Castle at Night' from Vampirella 21 was included within a list of the top 25 Warren stories in The Warren Companion by David Roach. After leaving Warren, Mas moved to Venezuela and stopped his comic work, choosing instead to focus on painting. He would later move to Florida.

Selected bibliography

• Lt. Kane
• Romeo
• Creepy
  Creepy
  Creepy was an American horror-comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. The anthology magazine was initially published quarterly but...
  
  (issues 43, 45, 46, 50-52)
• Vampirella
  Vampirella
  Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and costume designer Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 . Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in...
  
  (issues 16, 18, 21-24, 34-36, 38, 39)

External links

• Felix Mas biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia