James Warren
American magazine publisher
James Warren (born James Warren Taubman; July 29, 1930) is a magazine publisher and founder of Warren Publishing. Magazines published by Warren include Famous Monsters of Filmland, the horror-comics magazines Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella, the war anthology Blazing Combat, and the science-fiction anthology 1984 (later renamed 1994), among others.2
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Born Jul 29, 1930.1
About
Contributors to Warren's magazines included such significant artists as Neal Adams, Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Steve Ditko, Frank Frazetta, Russ Heath, Esteban Maroto, Alex Niño, Sanjulián, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood, and writers/editors including Archie Goodwin, Louise Jones, Don McGregor, and Doug Moench. He appointed Billy Graham as the first known African-American art director in mainstream, nationally distributed comic books/comics magazines.
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Companies
- Warren PublishingFounder7
Early life and education
James Warren was born at Mount Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An art student during his grammar school and high school years, he came in second one year in the Pennsylvania State Scholastic Art Competition. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture and served in ROTC, leaving his junior year to enlist in the United States Army when the Korean War began. Accepted into Armored Infantry Officers Training, he was deafened six months later during training when he got too close to the.50 caliber heavy machine gun. He was medically discharged a few months later, and did not return to Penn.
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Career
Occupation: publisher.4
- Date not recordedFounded Warren Publishing3
Personal life
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataJames Warren on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJames Warren on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataWarren Publishing, Founder
- 8Wikimedia CommonsJames Warren photo by Tedjalbert, CC BY-SA 4.0