COMPANY HISTORY Once Upon A Time ...

Then, in 1983 the impossible occurred when what seemed like a never-ending string of successes for Warren Publishing succumbed to what appeared to be the end of the monster world of Jim Warren. When Warren Publishing's Founder and Chief Executive Officer grew debilitatingly ill, no longer able to steer his huge publishing vessel, tremendous financial reversal of one of the Warren companies, Warren Communications, set in and his properties were pillaged, falling into the hands of others. However, their lesser-impacting reincarnations illustrated that without the Master's touch, the scavanged creations were mere imitations of their former full-bodied selves. For a time it seemed as if all was lost. Then, in 1998, as the result of a brutal legal battle, Jim Warren regained ownership of Creepy & Eerie, and has since negotiated the sale of the popular duo to Greystone Productions, for Television and Motion Pictures. Today Jim Warren Publishing is again creating, developing and producing new and innovative properties for all the world to read, watch, and listen to!

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Proving itself in real time, "FM" as the world's first monster magazine became known among its growing readership, was soon joined by MONSTER WORLD, plus a slue of other Warren publications, including Blazing Combat, HELP!, Creepy, Eerie, Spacemen, Wildest Westerns, Screen Thrills, and other nifty newsstand newbies. Offshoots of his monster mania inspired other publications from Jim Warren, including a best-selling instructional how-to makeup manual by face wizard Dick Smith. In 1974 and again in 1975 Jim Warren promoted the world's first monster cons, once more breaking new ground with innovative concepts. From 1958 until 1983, Warren magazines regularly adorned adoring aficionado's newstands across the country, spawning a number of copycat editions that for the most part flashed then failed.

Hugh Hefner hoped to helm a monster magazine, and Jim Warren tried a Playboy-type publication. Fortunately for millions of monster fans the world over, both failed at their initial attempts. Hef published Playboy instead, and Jim dropped his girlie magazine aspirations for an idea he had been harboring ever since seeing a horror edition of a French cinema magazine, and FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND - Jim Warren's own title and concept, hand-made and hand-crafted by Jim Warren and Forrest J Ackerman - made publishing history in 1958. Warren Publishing Company, which began three years earlier as a bedroom industry, swelled to epic proportions in a one-shot snowbound sellout at the newsstands. It was FM's original distributor Kable News that listened to Jim pitch FAMOUS MONSTERS, and when the fledgling FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine - originally-planned as a one-shot - sold out in record time, a "back up" printing fit for a major news publication was rushed to press.