William Bryan Dubay[1] (January 11, 1948 – April 15, 2010[1][2]), also known by the pseudonyms Will Richardson, and Dube,[3] was an American comic-book editor, writer and artist best known as editor and writer for Warren Publishing, including that company's horror-comics magazines Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella.
DuBay was the first of seven children born to Richard and Dorothy (née Lucas)[4] DuBay,[2] the latest in a multigenerational family line of Lucases, Searses, and Spreckles in San Francisco, California,[5] became interested in comics after an uncle presented him with a gift of comic albums starring the Hergé character Tintin.
That latter story, "The Crimes of the Transmuter", by writer Dave Bibby, was reprinted in the 1997 Hamster Press book Fandom's Finest Comics.
4 (Dec. 1966),[6] and the four-page "Adult Super-Hero Daydreams", penciled by DuBay and written by himself and Roy Thomas in Not Brand Echh No.
DuBay returned to Warren as a professional with the story "Movie Dissector", written by R. Michael Rosen, in Creepy No.
'"[9] In short order, he began writing stories as well as drawing them, beginning with the four-page "Life Species" in Eerie No.
When Goodwin departed to work for Marvel Comics, DuBay, beginning with issues cover-dated September 1974, was once more named Warren Publishing's editor.
Moriarty in turn succeeded DuBay after four months, becoming Warren's final editor upon the company's demise in 1983.
Other Warren magazines DuBay edited included Comix International, 1984 (renamed 1994 with issue #11), The Rook, The Goblin, and The Spirit.
He then edited the three-issue Pacific Comics superhero anthology Bold Adventure (Nov. 1983 – June 1984), and wrote the features "Anaconda" and "The Weirdling".
That year, he was hired by Stan Lee to help build the animation studio Marvel Productions.
[13] Later, he and Rook co-creator Budd Lewis formed Time Castle Books to publish collections and planned graphic novels starring their character.