Color stories would begin appearing in Eerie starting with issue 54 in February 1974. During this period the frequency of Eerie and Warren's other magazines was upped to nine issues per year. William Dubay, who first joined Warren as an artist in 1970, would become editor of the magazine for issues 43 through 72. Ī variety of editors would continue to manage Eerie after Goodwin's second departure including Billy Graham and J.R. Some of Eerie 's original artists including Frazetta, Crandall and Wood would return, as would Goodwin, as Associate Editor for issues 29 through 33. Things would pick up starting in 1969 with the premiere of Vampirella magazine. Editors during this period included Bill Parente and publisher Jim Warren himself. Warren was going through a financial crisis at the time, forcing pay cuts for both writers and artists, driving the majority of the magazine's leading artists to leave, and making Warren fill much of their content with Goodwin-era reprints, which would be prevalent in the magazine until issue 26 in March 1970. Goodwin would eventually resign as the editor of Eerie after issue 11 in September 1967.
Eerie was published on a bi-monthly basis. Other artists during this era included Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Neal Adams, Dan Adkins, and Steve Ditko. Nelson Bridwell and Larry Ivie, the second issue featured art by Gene Colan, Johnny Craig (as Jay Taycee), Reed Crandall, Jerry Grandenetti (uncredited), Gray Morrow, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Angelo Torres and Alex Toth. Behind the Frank Frazetta cover were graphic horror tales edited by Goodwin and hosted by the lumpish Cousin Eerie, a curious character created by Jack Davis. Official distribution began with the second issue, still priced at 35c. Creepy and Eerie are like Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre." The Laurel and Hardy syndrome always appealed to me. Warren explained, "We launched Eerie because we thought Creepy ought to have an adversary. With a logo by Ben Oda, it was created overnight by editor Archie Goodwin and letterer Gaspar Saladino to establish publisher Jim Warren's ownership of the title when it was discovered that a rival publisher (later known as Eerie Publications) would be using the name. The first issue cost 35¢, was published in September 1966 and only had a 200-issue run of an "ashcan" edition.
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