Born in Barcelona, Catalunya, Beá joined the art agency Selecciones Ilustradas at 15 [1] and started his comic book career in the late 1950s when he worked for Fleetway in Britain.

Due to his connections with the Spanish agency Selecciones Illustrada, Beá started working for Warren Publishing in America in 1971, premiering with the story The Silver Thief and the Pharoah's Daughter in Vampirella 13.

[1] In 1979 he was convicted for offenses against morality for the content of one of his stories in Tales of the Galactic Inn, and was forbidden from doing anymore artwork.

[2] Once this ban was lifted, he co-founded the magazine Rambla with Luis Garcia, acting as Publisher and Editor, and working under both his own name and the alias Sanchez Zamora.

[1] After Rambla went out of business, he would found his own publishing company, Intermagen which republished various works of his as well as producing various humor magazines.