Jesse Marinoff Reyes:
Creepy
June 1966 issue, #9
Illustration: Frank Frazetta (1928-2010)
Frank Frazetta
… Frank Frazetta! Frazetta painted 12 of the first 17 covers for Jim Warren’s seminal adult horror comics magazine, Creepy (and a number of others over the years) as well as most of the early covers for Eerie, the debut issue of Vampirella (establishing the character and costume design), and all of the covers for Blazing Combat. Warren recruited most of the former-EC Comics stable to work on his “adult” comics magazines (since the format would be displayed on the magazine racks and not the comics carousel, they avoided the content prohibition that comics were subject to under the rubric of the Comics Code—put in place because of the liberties that EC Comics had taken with sex and violence and horror) to spectacular effect.
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