JAMES WARREN:
EMPIRE OF
MONSTERS is lauded historian
Bill Schell's biography of the visionary magazine publisher behind Ackerman's periodical, which inspired filmmakers Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Joe Dante and many more. Warren also published Help!, a humor magazine created by Mad's Harvey Kurtzman, which featured early work by Gloria Steinem, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Robert Crumb—and the horror comics anthologies Creepy and Eerie, with painted covers by Frank Frazetta and interior art by Steve Ditko, Wallace Wood, Bernie Wrightson and others.
Vampirella, Warren's most famous co-creation, debuted in her own magazine in 1969, and stars in comics to this day.
Eisner Award-winning biographer Schelly reveals, through outrageous anecdotes, that "the publisher who built a vampire empire!," according to Rolling Stone, was a man of enormous charm, colossal arrogance, unexpected kindness and explosive anger, whose company rose to impressive heights before its sudden collapse.