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'Warren Publishing' is a magazine firm founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades. Magazines published by Warren include ''After Hours'', ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'', ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'', ''Favorite Westerns of Filmland'', ''The Goblin'', ''Help!'', ''Monster World'', ''The Rook'', ''Screen Thrills Illustrated'', ''Spacemen'', and ''Vampirella''.
Fantasy films were the focus of ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' and ''Monster World'', edited by Forrest J. Ackerman. After first introducing what he called "Monster Comics" in ''Monster World'', Warren expanded in 1965 with horror-comics stories in what would become a highly popular duo of magazines, ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie''. They were created partly in response to the Comics Code Authority, established in 1954 to help ensure comics were suitable for parents. By publishing graphic stories in a magazine format to which the Code did not apply, Warren paved the way for such later graphic-story magazines as the American version of ''Heavy Metal'', Marvel Comics' ''Epic Illustrated'' and Warren's own line of magazines.
Russ Jones, the founding editor of ''Creepy'' in 1964, detailed the magazine's origins and his lengthy negotiations with Warren in the memoir "Creepy & Eerie" at his website. In 1965, Archie Goodwin joined Warren as the editor of ''Creepy'', and Joe Orlando was a behind-the-scenes story editor. Goodwin, who would become one of comics' foremost and most influential writers, helped to establish the company as a major force in its field. During this period Warren also published a war-comics magazine, ''Blazing Combat'', that lasted four issues.
After 17 issues of ''Creepy'' and 11 of ''Eerie'', Goodwin resigned as editor in 1967. During the next two-and-a-half years, those titles consisted primarily of reprints from the early issues. During this period, a variety of editors ran the magazines including Bill Parente, Nicola Cuti, and Warren himself. Things started picking up again for Warren in 1969 with the premiere of its third horror magazine, Vampirella. Many of Warren's original artists returned during this period, as would Goodwin for a period of time in 1970 and 1971.
Warren's success eventually gave Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Charlton Comics the impetus to re-enter the horror field, leading to a 1970s revival of horror comics. After Goodwin's second departure, editors would J.R. Cochran. The art director was Billy Graham.
In 1971, Warren began using artists from the Barcelona studio of Spanish agency Seleccionnes Illustrada. Over the next few years, Spanish artists would dominate the magazines. Additional Spanish artists from S.I.'s Valencia Studio began freelancing for Warren in 1974.
In 1973, new editor Bill DuBay, who had originally joined the company as an artist in July 1972, transformed Warren's magazines to create a uniform style. The following year, Warren Publishing was dissolved and replaced by Warren Communications, a sister company James Warren had founded in 1972. Dubay was editor for all three of Warren's horror magazines until 1976, except for a short period of time in 1974 where Goodwin returned to edit four issues of ''Creepy'' and two of ''Vampirella''. During this period of time the frequency of Warren's magazines was upped to nine issues a year. DuBay also oversaw a new magazine ''The Spirit'', which revived the highly well-regarded Will Eisner character with reprints of the seven-page, Sunday-supplement comic of 1940s and early-'50s newspapers. It featured new covers by Eisner and an occasional color reprint. It would later move to Kitchen Sink Press.
After Dubay's departure, Louise Jones, his former assistant, headed the editorial staff from 1976 to 1980. During her period of editorship many American artists returned to the magazines, including John Severin, Alex Toth, and Russ Heath. Former DC Comics publisher Carmine Infantino would also join during this period. Much like the wave of Spanish artists that dominated throughout the mid-1970s, a number of artists from the Philippines would begin contributing. Dubay returned as editor after Jones' departure, using the alias "Will Richardson".
In the 1980s, James Warren's bad health combined with changing tastes and business problems, led to the company declaring bankruptcy. In August 1983, Harris Publications acquired company assets at auction, although legal murkiness and a 1998 lawsuit by James Warren resulted in his reacquisition of the rights to ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie'', though no new material since has been published as of 2007.
Other Warren publications included the short-lived ''Pantha'' and the science-fiction magazines ''The Rook'' (which published the further adventures of a character that first appeared in ''Eerie'') and ''1984'' (which changed its name to ''1994'' after issue #10). ''Goblin'', starring another character who originally appeared in ''Eerie'' had a three-issue run.
Illustrators included such established artists as Orlando, Neal Adams, Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, Roy G. Krenkel, Gray Morrow, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Alex Toth, John Severin, Russ Heath and Wally Wood, plus a newer group of talents, including Dan Adkins, Richard Bassford, Roger Brand, Frank Brunner, Rich Buckler, Dave Cockrum, Nicola Cuti, Richard Corben, Al Hewetson, Ken Kelly, Mike Royer, and Tom Sutton.
The Spanish artists from Seleccionnes Illustrada included Esteban Maroto, José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo, Rafael Aura Leon, Luis Garcia, Jose Gonzalez, Isidro Mones, Martin Salvador, Fernando Fernandez, Leopold Sanchez, Ramon Torrents, Jose Bea, Vicente Alcazar, Jose Gual, Felix Mas and Jaime Brocal. Artists from the Phillipines included Alex Nino, Rudy Nebres, Alfredo Alcala and Abel Laxamana. Other international artists who worked for Warren include Gonzalo Mayo (Peru), Leo Duranona (Argentina) and Paul Neary (England).
Cover artists for ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella'' included Adkins, Frazetta, Kelly, Morrow, Sutton, Ken Barr, Vaughn Bodé, Pat Boyette, Ron Cobb, Richard Conway, Jack Davis, H.R. Giger, Basil Gogos, Bill Hughes, Terrance Lindall, Gutenberg Monteiro, Albert Nuetzell, Vic Prezo, Manuel Sanjulian, Vincente Segrelles, Kenneth Smith, Enrich Torres and Boris Vallejo.
Writers included Goodwin,Cuti, Dubay, Bruce Jones, Doug Moench, Budd Lewis, Gerry Boudreau, Rich Margopoulos, Don McGregor, Steve Skeates, Jim Stenstrum, and T. Casey Brennan.
The first known interracial kiss in mainstream comics (as opposed to underground comix) occurred in Warren's ''Creepy'' #43 (Jan. 1972), in "The Men Who Called Him Monster" by writer Don McGregor and artist Luis Garcia. McGregor said in the book ''The Warren Companion'' that the kiss was actually due to the artist misunderstanding the line "This is the clincher" in the script. McGregor would later script color comic books' first known interracial kiss, in the "Killraven: Warrior of the Worlds" feature in ''Amazing Adventures'' #31 (July 1975).
The unrelated Warren Publishing of Cornelius, North Carolina publishes literary fiction and nonfiction, medical books, poetry and children's books. Also unrelated is the black-and-white horror magazine publisher Eerie Publications.
★ ''Philadelphia City Paper'', Jan. 6-12,2005: "Jim Warren Meets Vampirella"
★ "The Warren Magazines", by Richard J. Arndt (History, bibliography, interviews)
★ ''The Comics Journal'' #253: "The Vampirella Wars"
★ ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie''
★ The Warren Companion, by David A Roach and Jon B. Cooke
| Contents |
| Founding |
| Introduction of Vampirella |
| 1980s |
| Artists and writers |
| Milestones |
| Misc. |
| References |
Founding
''Vampirella'' #1 (Sept. 1969). Cover art by Frank Frazetta.
Fantasy films were the focus of ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' and ''Monster World'', edited by Forrest J. Ackerman. After first introducing what he called "Monster Comics" in ''Monster World'', Warren expanded in 1965 with horror-comics stories in what would become a highly popular duo of magazines, ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie''. They were created partly in response to the Comics Code Authority, established in 1954 to help ensure comics were suitable for parents. By publishing graphic stories in a magazine format to which the Code did not apply, Warren paved the way for such later graphic-story magazines as the American version of ''Heavy Metal'', Marvel Comics' ''Epic Illustrated'' and Warren's own line of magazines.
Russ Jones, the founding editor of ''Creepy'' in 1964, detailed the magazine's origins and his lengthy negotiations with Warren in the memoir "Creepy & Eerie" at his website. In 1965, Archie Goodwin joined Warren as the editor of ''Creepy'', and Joe Orlando was a behind-the-scenes story editor. Goodwin, who would become one of comics' foremost and most influential writers, helped to establish the company as a major force in its field. During this period Warren also published a war-comics magazine, ''Blazing Combat'', that lasted four issues.
Introduction of Vampirella
After 17 issues of ''Creepy'' and 11 of ''Eerie'', Goodwin resigned as editor in 1967. During the next two-and-a-half years, those titles consisted primarily of reprints from the early issues. During this period, a variety of editors ran the magazines including Bill Parente, Nicola Cuti, and Warren himself. Things started picking up again for Warren in 1969 with the premiere of its third horror magazine, Vampirella. Many of Warren's original artists returned during this period, as would Goodwin for a period of time in 1970 and 1971.
Warren's success eventually gave Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Charlton Comics the impetus to re-enter the horror field, leading to a 1970s revival of horror comics. After Goodwin's second departure, editors would J.R. Cochran. The art director was Billy Graham.
In 1971, Warren began using artists from the Barcelona studio of Spanish agency Seleccionnes Illustrada. Over the next few years, Spanish artists would dominate the magazines. Additional Spanish artists from S.I.'s Valencia Studio began freelancing for Warren in 1974.
In 1973, new editor Bill DuBay, who had originally joined the company as an artist in July 1972, transformed Warren's magazines to create a uniform style. The following year, Warren Publishing was dissolved and replaced by Warren Communications, a sister company James Warren had founded in 1972. Dubay was editor for all three of Warren's horror magazines until 1976, except for a short period of time in 1974 where Goodwin returned to edit four issues of ''Creepy'' and two of ''Vampirella''. During this period of time the frequency of Warren's magazines was upped to nine issues a year. DuBay also oversaw a new magazine ''The Spirit'', which revived the highly well-regarded Will Eisner character with reprints of the seven-page, Sunday-supplement comic of 1940s and early-'50s newspapers. It featured new covers by Eisner and an occasional color reprint. It would later move to Kitchen Sink Press.
After Dubay's departure, Louise Jones, his former assistant, headed the editorial staff from 1976 to 1980. During her period of editorship many American artists returned to the magazines, including John Severin, Alex Toth, and Russ Heath. Former DC Comics publisher Carmine Infantino would also join during this period. Much like the wave of Spanish artists that dominated throughout the mid-1970s, a number of artists from the Philippines would begin contributing. Dubay returned as editor after Jones' departure, using the alias "Will Richardson".
1980s
In the 1980s, James Warren's bad health combined with changing tastes and business problems, led to the company declaring bankruptcy. In August 1983, Harris Publications acquired company assets at auction, although legal murkiness and a 1998 lawsuit by James Warren resulted in his reacquisition of the rights to ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie'', though no new material since has been published as of 2007.
Other Warren publications included the short-lived ''Pantha'' and the science-fiction magazines ''The Rook'' (which published the further adventures of a character that first appeared in ''Eerie'') and ''1984'' (which changed its name to ''1994'' after issue #10). ''Goblin'', starring another character who originally appeared in ''Eerie'' had a three-issue run.
Artists and writers
''Creepy'' #22 (Aug. 1968), cover art by Tom Sutton.
Illustrators included such established artists as Orlando, Neal Adams, Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, Roy G. Krenkel, Gray Morrow, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Alex Toth, John Severin, Russ Heath and Wally Wood, plus a newer group of talents, including Dan Adkins, Richard Bassford, Roger Brand, Frank Brunner, Rich Buckler, Dave Cockrum, Nicola Cuti, Richard Corben, Al Hewetson, Ken Kelly, Mike Royer, and Tom Sutton.
The Spanish artists from Seleccionnes Illustrada included Esteban Maroto, José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo, Rafael Aura Leon, Luis Garcia, Jose Gonzalez, Isidro Mones, Martin Salvador, Fernando Fernandez, Leopold Sanchez, Ramon Torrents, Jose Bea, Vicente Alcazar, Jose Gual, Felix Mas and Jaime Brocal. Artists from the Phillipines included Alex Nino, Rudy Nebres, Alfredo Alcala and Abel Laxamana. Other international artists who worked for Warren include Gonzalo Mayo (Peru), Leo Duranona (Argentina) and Paul Neary (England).
Cover artists for ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella'' included Adkins, Frazetta, Kelly, Morrow, Sutton, Ken Barr, Vaughn Bodé, Pat Boyette, Ron Cobb, Richard Conway, Jack Davis, H.R. Giger, Basil Gogos, Bill Hughes, Terrance Lindall, Gutenberg Monteiro, Albert Nuetzell, Vic Prezo, Manuel Sanjulian, Vincente Segrelles, Kenneth Smith, Enrich Torres and Boris Vallejo.
Writers included Goodwin,Cuti, Dubay, Bruce Jones, Doug Moench, Budd Lewis, Gerry Boudreau, Rich Margopoulos, Don McGregor, Steve Skeates, Jim Stenstrum, and T. Casey Brennan.
Milestones
The first known interracial kiss in mainstream comics (as opposed to underground comix) occurred in Warren's ''Creepy'' #43 (Jan. 1972), in "The Men Who Called Him Monster" by writer Don McGregor and artist Luis Garcia. McGregor said in the book ''The Warren Companion'' that the kiss was actually due to the artist misunderstanding the line "This is the clincher" in the script. McGregor would later script color comic books' first known interracial kiss, in the "Killraven: Warrior of the Worlds" feature in ''Amazing Adventures'' #31 (July 1975).
Misc.
The unrelated Warren Publishing of Cornelius, North Carolina publishes literary fiction and nonfiction, medical books, poetry and children's books. Also unrelated is the black-and-white horror magazine publisher Eerie Publications.
References
★ ''Philadelphia City Paper'', Jan. 6-12,2005: "Jim Warren Meets Vampirella"
★ "The Warren Magazines", by Richard J. Arndt (History, bibliography, interviews)
★ ''The Comics Journal'' #253: "The Vampirella Wars"
★ ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie''
★ The Warren Companion, by David A Roach and Jon B. Cooke
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