Esteban Maroto

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

Satana from Vampire Tales#3, drawn by Esteban Maroto.
Satana from Vampire Tales#3, drawn by Esteban Maroto.

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 retouched by editor Neal Adams). In the 1970s he started to be known in his own country when Trinca magazine published Alma de Dragón. As the same time he drew numerous short stories for the Warren horror magazines Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. Eerie reprinted his series Manly as "Dax the Warrior" in issues #39-41, 43-50, and 52. He designed the "metal bikini" for the character Red Sonja, in Savage Tales #3, Comixscene #5, and in the first issue of The Savage Sword of Conan and pencilled her first solo story, which was inked by Neal Adams and Ernie Chan. He also redesigned Satana for Marvel Comics and drew her second solo story in Vampire Tales issue 3. In issue 4 of the same series he drew an outstading adaptation of the short story The Drifting Snow by August Derleth.

He also contributed black and white illustrations for the Roger Zelazny book "Changeling".

Red Sonja drawn by Esteban Maroto.
Red Sonja drawn by Esteban Maroto.

He later worked on the series Zatanna, The Atlantis Chronicles, The Savage Sword of Conan, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Vlad the Impaler and X-Men Unlimited

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