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Vampirella first
appeared in a magazine format when Jim Warren published the third of his
group of black and white magazines in 1969. The reasoning behind
this move was to avoid the censorship of the Comics Code, because black
and white magazines were not bound by the Code, which was still pretty
powerful in 1964 when Creepy, the first of his horror black and
whites, emerged.
Warren's
Vampirella magazine ran until issue #112 in January 1983, then his
company went bankrupt. Apart from the very first Harris publication
on Vampirella, Vampirella #113, Vampi was only seen in comic book
format until 2003 (I am not here including the Harris reprints of Warren's
issue #1 which were published in 2001).
Then
- WOW - a new magazine exploded onto the Vampirella world in October
2003. It looked very similar to those original Warrens (nostalgia
for old folks like me) and featured new stories, articles, fan letters and
just all things Vampi.
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