James Warren

James Warren (born James Warren Taubman; July 29, 1930) 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.

Early life and education James Warren was born at Mount Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Through After Hours, Warren met his future collaborator, Hollywood literary agent Forrest J Ackerman, who submitted 21 pages of sci-fi and monster-film features, including the pictorial "Girls from Science-Fiction Movies, all published in After Hours #4", leading this issue to be nicknamed Famous Monsters #0 by collectors. from the San Diego Comic-Con committee.

Public Appearances July 1971: Warren was the keynote speaker at the New York Comic Art Convention, in New York City.

January 1973: Warren attended the CosmiCon at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

November 1974: Warren hosted the 1st Famous Monsters Convention and attended it with Peter Cushing and Forrest Ackerman.

November 1975: Warren hosted the 2nd Famous Monsters Convention and a make-up demonstration was performed on Warren by Verne Langdon.

March 1998: Warren had a booth at the Big Apple Comic Convention in New York City.

May 1999: Warren attended a signing event for Famous Monsters of Filmland at the Chiller Theater Expo in Rutherford, New Jersey.

July 2005: Warren was an official guest at San Diego Comic-Con.

May 2008: Warren gave a lecture at the Abington Public Library, (Abington, Pennsylvania) where he discussed his career.

July 2008: Warren was official guest at San Diego Comic-Con and participated on the Famous Monsters panel with Forrest Ackerman and Verne Langdon.

May 2009: Warren was a featured guest at the MonsterPalooza convention in Burbank, California

October 2023: Warren appeared at the first Famous Monsters Festival in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. There he was reunited with his former art director, Bill Mohalley.

October 2024: Warren appeared at the second Famous Monster Festival in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

Magazines published

After Hours (1957) Help (1960 - 1965) Famous Monsters of Filmland (1958 - 1983) Creepy (1964 - 1983) Eerie (1966 - 1983) Vampirella (1969 - 1983) Comix International (1974 - 1975) The Spirit (1974 - 1976) The Rook (1979 - 1982) Monster World (1964–1966) Screen Thrills Illustrated (1962) Spacemen Teen Love Stories Warren Presents Wildest Westerns (1960–1961)

Additional Publications:

Famous Monsters Star Wars Spectacular House of Horror The Mole People The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben Freak Out U.S.A. Spacemen 1965 Yearbook The Spirit Special The True Fantastic Story of Tiny Tim (1968)