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James Warren At The Comic Con! Part 1 - After Hours As Reported From The 2008 SDCC Comic Con International! I was able to attend the first half of this special program. Since I had not seen James Warren in person before, I wanted to see as much of his program as possible inbetween two other programs.... The program was listed to be as follows: 3:00-4:00 Spotlight on James Warren— the legendary publisher of Famous Monsters of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella joins Comic-Con in a rare convention appearance! Jim Warren celebrates the 50th anniversary of FM along with the legendary Hollywood makeup artist Verne Langdon, also a Comic-Con special guest! Famous Monsters fans will recognize Langdon’s name from the pages of that beloved magazine. Room 4 James was asked questions by a moderator, Phil Kun (sp?). Since James is deaf, those questions were repeated by his friend Verne Langdon who sat close to James during the program James said he had been deaf since 20 years of age. James basically stood the whole time I was there. He basically started off by talking about his 'reputation', but stated that he "only picks on the big guys". He stated that he started 'After Hours' magazine because he thought he could compete with Hugh Hefner of Playboy. 'After Hours' only lasted for 4 issues! Because, as he told us, he ran a nude centerfold with Bettie Page in 1955 and was arrested in his city of Philadelphia. Arrested, and charged with pornography at the age of 26! James went on to start a Sci-Fi magazine and became sucessful with that. Which is opposite of Hugh Hefner, who started with Sci-Fi, didn't make it with that, and went on to start Playboy! Below is a cover from the long running Vampirella Magazine that James Warren published from September 1969 to March of 1983: Warren also published 28 other titles including: 1984, Blazing Combat, Creepy, Dracula, Eerie,Monster World, The Spirit, and Warren Presents, plus others. If you have not seen James Warren in person, I suggest seeing him at a program to get a sense of the history he has made and the contributions to the publishing industry he has made. There will be a second part to this blog post later, where James and Forrest Ackerman combined to build 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' into the powerhouse it became! Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again for more photos and stories from the Comic Con! Michael |  James Warren as he appeared at his 'Spotlight on James Warren' Program at the 2008 SDCC Comic Con International CCI ! For those of you interested in Comic Con promotional items... Just click on the photo to see all of the currently listed Comic Con promo items we brought back to list in our eBay Store! If you know of something that isn't listed... email us, we may have more that hasn't been listed yet!
James Warren was joined by Verne Langdon on stage at his Spotlight Program at the 2008 Comic Con International! For our current HoRRoR & MoNSTeR comics and magazines listings just click on the photo above!
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