Joe Orlando was not only an illustrator for Creepy but also a story editor on early issues, with his masthead credit reading: "Story Ideas: Joe Orlando". I was looking at a balloon over an Ingels Old Witch, and in her narrative, the word "creepy" grabbed out at me. He was furious and demanded a name for Project D. One night I was sitting in the studio alone, looking at Woody's tear-sheets from the ECs, when Warren called. Ask anyone who ever had to come up with one. I made a sketch of my host for the mag and sent it off to Jack Davis to work up a cover. Originally it was to be a 64-page magazine. Warren also choose not to use the comics industry's voluntary self-censorship Comics Code Authority for his black and white magazines. Illustrator and editor Russ Jones, the founding editor of Creepy in 1964, said he approached Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine publisher Jim Warren with the idea of horror comics similar to the 1950s' EC Comics comic books.
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