As detailed in the excellent biography James Warren Empire of Monsters, Warren Publishing eventually starting using a pre-established stable of Spanish artists. I was out of the books by then, but it does sound like the books got interesting again. Although it also sounds like they more heavily went into more realistic tales of crazy person violence as well as sword & sorcery, so those early days of your basic vampires and werewolves and ghouls and such drawn by your Reed Crandalls and Angelo Torres’s will remain my personal meat and potatoes. Certainly this cover with the photo-realistic little girl (clearly based on a model) implies a harder edge than those fantastic Franzetta covers of a werewolf fighting a Dracula or whatever.
