*I sat down at a mechanical typewriter and was one hour into Vampirella's origin story when Jim Warren looked over my shoulder, expecting to see something like "Frankenstein" or "Bela Lugosi" or "King Kong"-copy for FAMOUS MONSTERS. "What are you doing...??" he cried. Why, what came naturally, putting flesh and blood to the bones of my bonny lass, Vampi! Never having written a comic in my life, I pounded out her first spellbinding tale...
An impressive, fully painted diorama presented as a gift to FJA.
FRONT: Sanjulian's famous painting of Vampirella, presented as an outsized playing card on the cover of Vampirella #36 (Sept. 1974) *Source: Back of card