Comic Book Artist Ernie Colón Passes On

Comic book artist Ernie Colón, whose career spanned sixty years, died on August 8 2019 at the age of 88. The cause was cancer.

Ernie Colón was born on July 13 1931 in Puerto Rico. He grew up on the mainland of the United States. He started his career in comic books as a letter at Harvey Comics. He later did uncredited work on some of the company's titles, including Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost. The first work for which he was credited as an artist was on Wham-O Giant Comics #1 (April 1967), a title published by the toy company Wham-O. It was on the story "Kaleidoscope of Fear." Mr. Colón worked on both Gold Key Comics' Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom and Warren Publishing's comics magazines Eerie, Creepy, and Vampirella.

In the Seventies he did work for Atlas/Seaboard on their titles Grim Ghost, Thrilling Adventure Stories, Tiger-Man, and Weird Tales of the Macabre. He also did work at Marvel on Battlestar Galactica; John Carter, Warlord of Mars; and Savage Sword of Conan. In the Eighties he worked at DC on several titles, including Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld; Arak, Son of Thunder; Atari Force; Blue Devil; The Brave and the Bold; Cosmic Boy; DC Comics Presents; House of Mystery; Legion of Super-Heroes; Omega Men; Secret Origins; The Unexpected; and The Warlord. He also continued to do work at Harvey Comics. He worked at Eclipse Comics on Airboy.

In the Nineties Ernie Colón worked at Marvel on such titles as 2099 Unlimited, Doom, and Mighty Mouse. He worked on Dreadstar at Malibu Comics. He worked at DC on Scooby-Doo. At Harvey Comics he worked on Beetlejuice, Hot Stuff, Monster in My Pocket, Richie Rich, Ultraman, and Wendy the Good Little Witch. Mr. Colón worked on Magnus, Robot Fighter and Solar, Man of the Atom.

In addition to his work in comic books, he also worked on the weekly comic strip Spycat for the Weekly World News and several non-fiction projects. 

Ernie Colón was certainly a talented artist. He was also certainly versatile. He worked on everything from comic books for young readers (such various Harvey Comics titles and Marvel's Star Comics) to titles for adults (Warren Publishing's horror titles). He worked on a wide variety of characters as well, everything from Caspar the Friendly Ghost to Conan the Barbarian to The Black Widow.