in 1973, new editor bill dubay, who had originally joined the company as an artist early in 1970, transformed warren's magazines to create a uniform style. the following year, warren publishing was dissolved and replaced by warren communications, a sister company james warren had founded in 1972. dubay was editor for all three of warren's horror magazines until 1976, except for a short period of time in 1974 where goodwin returned to edit four issues of "creepy" and two of "vampirella". during this time, the frequency of warren's magazines was increased to nine issues a year.