Very little is known about the pulp-artist Ben Abas. After World War II, he worked for the Bell Studios in Lunteren, in The Netherlands. Between 1947 and 1955, he created a very popular series of small illustrated books (called "beeldromans" in Dutch) including 'Lex Brand', 'Spot Morton', 'Tom Wells', 'Kara Ben Nemsi', 'Texas Ranger' and 'De Groene Straal'. He was a friend of Lo Hartog van Banda, with whom he created the magazine Fantasie en Wetenschap in 1952. Ben Abas also worked for the famous Toonder Studio's, where he drew the newspaper strip 'Martin Evans', later continued by Gerrit Stapel. This strip appeared in newspaper Echo, among others, around 1958. Abas drew the balloon strip 'De Strijd der Gaucho's' for magazine Okido. Later, Ben Abas moved to Australia.
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