Steve Gan (born May 22, 1945) is a Chinese-born Filipino

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. He is best known for co-creating Panday with Carlo J. Caparas and

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and Skull the Slayer.

Biography

Steve Gan was born as Santos S. Gan but changed his first name to "Steve" in admiration of

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. Gan studied architecture at the Mapúa Institute of Technology and later worked as an artist in the Komiks industry.
It was as Steve Gan that he got a huge break drawing for American comic book publisher

, sending work through his United States-based agent, the Filipino comic book artist Tony DeZuñiga. In 1974, Gan began drawing for Marvel Comics and contributed to their line of black-and-white magazines including '' Savage Tales'' and ''

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''. He co-created

and Skull the Slayer with writers

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and

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respectively. Gan was highly regarded for his artwork on both Conan titles ''

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'' and '' Savage Sword of Conan'' from 1974 - 1979. Gan briefly worked for

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in the early 1980s. After leaving the comics industry, he became a layout designer and storyboard artist in the animation field. Upon the release of the ''

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'' film in 2014, Gan was given both a credit in the movie and royalties for co-creating Star-Lord.

Personal life

Gan is married with three children. He retired from drawing comics fulltime in 2002,
speaking at a convention in 2014 he spoke about walking away from drawing in the medium 12 years ago.

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

* ''

'' #58–63 (1976) * '' Deadly Hands of Kung Fu'' #16 (1975) * ''

'' #12–13 (1975) * ''

Marvel Premiere ''Marvel Premiere'' is an American comic book anthology series that was published by Marvel Comics. In concept it was a tryout book, intended to determine if a character or concept could attract enough readers to justify launching their own ser ...

'' #28 (1976) * ''

Marvel Preview ''Marvel Preview'' is a black-and-white comics magazine published by Magazine Management for fourteen issues and the affiliated Marvel Comics Group for ten issues. The final issue additionally carried the imprint Marvel Magazines Group. Publica ...

'' #4 (

), 19 ( Solomon Kane) (1976–1979) * '' Savage Sword of Conan'' #1, 5, 13, 25, 51 (1974–1979) * '' Savage Tales'' #6–9, 11–12 (1974–1975) * '' Skull the Slayer'' #1–3, 6 (1975–1976) * '' Tarzan Annual'' #1 (1977)

Warren Publishing

* ''

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'' #122, 134–135 (1980–1982)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gan, Steve 1945 births 20th-century Filipino illustrators 21st-century Filipino illustrators Chinese animators Chinese comics artists 20th-century Chinese illustrators 21st-century Chinese illustrators Comics inkers Filipino animators Filipino comics artists Filipino people of Chinese descent Filipino storyboard artists Living people Mapúa University alumni Filipino horror artists Filipino fantasy artists