James Warren (publisher)

James Warren
James Warren at the Famous Monsters Convention at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, October 14, 2023.
Born
James Warren Taubman

July 29, 1930
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationPublisher
Years active1957 – 1983.
Notable workFamous Monsters of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, Comix International
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/warrenpublishingonline/

James Warren (born James Warren Taubman;[1] July 29, 1930)[2] is a magazine publisher and founder of Warren Publishing. Magazines published by Warren include Famous Monsters of Filmland, the horror-comics magazines Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella, the war anthology Blazing Combat, and the science-fiction anthology 1984 (later renamed 1994), among others. Contributors to Warren’s magazines included such significant artists as Neal Adams, Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Steve Ditko, Frank Frazetta, Russ Heath, Esteban Maroto, Alex Niño, Sanjulián, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood, and writers/editors including Archie Goodwin, Louise Jones, Don McGregor, and Doug Moench. He appointed Billy Graham as the first known African-American art director in mainstream, nationally distributed comic books/comics magazines.

  1. ^ "Re: The Warren Report > Clarification". Comic Book Artist. No. 5. TwoMorrows Publishing. Summer 1999. p. 5.
  2. ^ Langdon, Verne. "The Most Famous Monster of Them All: James Warren". Jim Warren Publishing. Archived from the original on January 7, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.