James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters

James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters

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Bill Schelly Fantagraphics The definitive biography of the visionary publisher of Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine that inspired filmmakers Steven Spielberg, George Lucas — now available in paperback. In Empire of Monsters, the award-winning biographer Bill Schelly digs beneath the hype and myth-making to tell the true story of James Warren, one of the 20th century’s most influential and independent publishers. Featuring numerous eye-opening, often outrageous anecdotes about the colorful, larger-than-life figure, this book covers Warren’s childhood in the slums of south Philadelphia, a traumatic military injury during the Korean War, the hardscrabble origins of Warren Publishing, its great success and ignominious end — as well as his reemergence on the public scene in the 1990s, and the lawsuit to regain ownership of his literary properties.<.p> For this impeccably researched biography, Schelly offers insight from new interviews with Warren’s colleagues, editors, and fri

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