For Your Consideration: Dynamite’s Vampirella Archives
by Robert Greenberger
By 1969, Jim Warren had moved his growing publishing company from Philadelphia to New York but the costs associated with the move proved staggering. Suddenly, he resorted to reprints in Creepy and Eerie and felt pushed against the wall. It was then he thought of something daring and new…a female-centric continuing character that would headline her own magazine. Clearly inspired by the recent success of Jane Fonda in Barbarella, he thought of a vampire heroine.