Across his career, Carlos Pacheco has worked on many Spanish translated editions of Marvel Comics before earning a following in the United States for his work on such titles as Avengers Forever, X-Men, and Green Lantern.

Born in San Roque, Spain, Pacheco spent his early career working for Planeta-DeAgostini Comics. At this time, he primarily drew covers, posters, and pin-ups for Spanish editions of Marvel’s top titles. Among his first published superhero comic was the eight-page American Soldier, published as a back-up in Marvel Héroes #41. Together with writer Rafael Marín, Pacheco created the Spanish superhero groups Iberia Inc. and Tríada Vértice. After penciling Dan Abnett and Oscar Jimenez’s four-issue Dark Guard, Pacheco gained attention in the United States.

He was then offered a job on Marvel’s limited series Bishop with John Ostrander and Cam Smith. Shortly thereafter, he was hired by DC Comics on The Flash before returning to Marvel for the two-part limited series X-Universe. In the late ’90s, Pacheco, Cam Smith, and Warren Ellis teamed for the Starjammers limited series and later reunited for the ongoing Excalibur series. By the time Pacheco was hired as penciller on Fantastic Four, his art had already become a fan favorite. Marvel acknowledged his growing acclaim by assigning him to one of their flagship titles, X-Men.

Following X-Men, Pacheco worked on the 12-issue series Avengers Forever, before returning to Fantastic Four this time as co-writer. He later played a substantial role in the graphic novel, JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice, which united the Justice League and the Justice Society against common foes. Pacheco worked on the fantasy war series Arrowsmith, the “Absolute Power” storyline in Superman/Batman, Geoff Johns’ new Green Lantern series, created covers for DC’s Trinity weekly series and assisted J.G. Jones in illustrating the Final Crisis miniseries. 

More recently, Pacheco has worked almost exclusively with Marvel on such titles as Ultimate Comics: Avengers, the Age of Ultron limited series and collaborated with Rick Remender on the Captain America series. Pacheco is also among the long list of artists who worked on Marvel’s Incoming #1 anthology, alongside Humberto Ramos, Jim Cheung, Aaron Kuder, Andrea Sorrentino, Annie Wu, Carmen Carnero, Francesco Manna, Javier Garron, Joe Bennett, Jorge Fornes, Kim Jacinto, Luciano Vecchio, Mattia De Iulis, and R.B. Silva.