Colin Dawkins

Colin Campbell Dawkins was born on September 8, 1922, in the United States, and died on November 27, 1986. He is best remembered as a writer for EC Comics, though his primary career was in advertising, where he rose to vice-president at the J. Walter Thompson agency. Dawkins entered comics in the mid-1950s, contributing to EC’s war titles during the company’s final years before the industry’s self-censorship crackdown. His most credited work appears in *Two-Fisted Tales*, *Battle*, *Battleground*, and *War Comics*, where he wrote gritty, character-driven stories about soldiers and combat. He often collaborated with artists such as John Severin and Jack Davis, bringing a journalist’s eye for detail to his scripts. Dawkins did not co-create any major recurring characters, but his EC work stands as a sharp, unsentimental chronicle of war’s human cost. After EC ceased publishing comics in the mid-1950s, he returned to advertising full-time, leaving behind a small but respected body of comic book work. He received no major industry awards during his lifetime, though his contributions have been recognized in retrospectives of EC’s war comics. Dawkins’s legacy is that of a skilled professional who brought a Madison Avenue polish to the raw energy of 1950s war comics.