Dark Horse Revives Creepy

Dark Horse is reviving famed horror anthology, Creepy. Originally published by Warren, Creepy was a black and white, magazine-style anthology of horror tales without the Comics Code. It started back in 1964, almost a generation after EC Comics and other comics publishers lost their horror titles to Conservative pressure, and cinematic monsters were pop-culture fluff.

Short stories of darkness and despair - and mostly murder - have proven popular in the comics field time and again over the years (the most recent of which, that I am familiar with, being IDW's Doomed), and they are often done in magazine format, largely thanks to Creepy's influence. Dark Horse is bringing it back in a 48-page comic format, after reprinting many of the magazines in hardcover.

Creepy Comics #1 premieres this Wednesday, with a panel signing the following week at Comic-Con, which includes Berni Wrightson! The cover price is $4.99.

© C Harris Lynn, 2009

Submarine & Grand Canal Acquire Warren Properties

Some older hands probably remember the Warren brand. I remember a few of them: there was a Warren magazine and one called Creepy. The only reason I know those is because I have some of the issues featuring Berni Wrightson, but the rest were well before my time.

Inspired by the EC comics of yesteryear, Warren magazines were mainstays on the newsstands in the '60s and '70s and now, Submarine and Grand Canal Filmworks have acquired the properties and merged into a new division, called New Comic Company, which will handle licensing and so on concerning the Warren properties.

The original magazines included such talent as the aforementioned Wrightson, Frank Frazetta, Neal Adams, Rich Corben, Archie Goodwin (Epic), and more. Word from the camp is to rejuvenate the brand across multiple mediums.