Eerie Publications was a publisher of

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horror-anthology comics magazines.

History

Less well-known and more downscale than the field's leader,

Warren Publishing Warren Publishing was an American magazine company 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'', '' F ...

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Eerie ''Eerie'' was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like '' Mad'', it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's volunta ...

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Vampirella Vampirella () is a fictional vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine ''Vampirella'' #1 (Sept. 1969), a sister publication of '' Cre ...

''), the company, based at 150 Fifth Avenue in New York City, was one of several related publishing ventures run by comic-book artist and 1970s magazine entrepreneur

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. Titles published during its 15 years of operation included ''Weird'', ''Horror Tales'', ''

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'', ''Tales from the Tomb'', ''Tales of Voodoo'', and ''Witches' Tales''. All of these magazines featured grisly, lurid color covers and no advertisements, having the final page of a story on the back cover. New material was mixed with reprints from 1950s pre-

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horror comics. Writer and artist credits seldom appeared, but included

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penciler/

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, as well as Fass himself, with brother Irving Fass and Ezra Jackson serving as art directors. Mel Lenny initially and then Golden Age of Comic Books producer

Robert W. Farrell Farrell Publications is the name of a series of American comic book Publisher, publishing companies founded and operated by Robert W. Farrell in the 1940s and 1950s, including Elliot Publishing Company, Farrell Comic Group, and Excellent Publicatio ...

had the title of publisher. Carl Burgos, creator of the Golden Age

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, was editor; he created a short-lived character called Captain Marvel, no relation to either the old

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superhero nor Marvel's Captain Marvel, for Fass' M. F. Enterprises in 1966. Fass' business partner, Stanley Harris, left in 1976 after a falling-out, and formed

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, whose comic book arm published ''Vampirella'' and other former Warren properties.

Titles published

Source: * ''Horror Tales'' (27 issues, June 1969 – Feb. 1979) * ''Strange Galaxy'' (4 issues, Feb. 1971 – Aug. 1971) * ''Tales from the Crypt'' (1 issue, July 1968) * ''Tales from the Tomb'' (33 issues, July 1969 – Feb. 1975) * ''Tales of Voodoo'' (36 issues, Nov.1968 – Nov. 1974) * ''

'' (46 issues, March 1969 – Jan.1979) * ''Terrors of Dracula'' (9 issues, May 1979 – Sept. 1981) * ''Weird'' (69 issues, Jan, 1966 – Nov. 1981) * ''Weird Worlds'' (5 issues, Dec. 1970 – Aug. 1971) * ''Witches' Tales''Spelled with apostrophe on cover, spelled without apostrophe in copyrighted title in issues' postal indicia, per Grand Comics Database. (34 issues, July 1969 – Feb. 1975)

References

External links

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