Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and did not carry the seal of the Comics Code Authority.

[2] Artists during this era included Neal Adams, Dan Adkins, Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig, Steve Ditko, Frank Frazetta, Gray Morrow, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Alex Toth, Al Williamson and Wally Wood.

[citation needed] Warren was going through a financial crisis at the time, forcing pay cuts for both writers and artists, driving the majority of the magazine's leading artists to leave, and making Warren fill much of their content with Goodwin-era reprints,[4] which would be prevalent in the magazine until issue #32 in April 1970.

A variety of editors ran the magazine during this period, including Bill Parente, Nicola Cuti and Warren himself.

Some of Creepy's original artists, including Frazetta, Crandall and Wood, would return, as did Goodwin, who was associate editor for issues #35 through #39.

[citation needed] A variety of editors continued to manage Creepy after Goodwin's second departure, including Billy Graham and J. R. Cochran.

In late 1971, artists from the Barcelona Studio of Spanish agency Selecciones Ilustradas started appearing in Creepy and other Warren magazines.

Writers during Dubay's era as editor included Gerry Boudreau, Budd Lewis, Jim Stenstrum, Steve Skeates and Doug Moench.

Towards the end of his period as editor, many artists from Creepy's first golden era returned, including Alex Toth and John Severin.

Former DC Comics publisher Carmine Infantino joined Warren shortly after he became editor and did pencils for over 50 stories.

[citation needed] Shortly after that rights acquisition deal, in June 2007, New Comic Company LLC principals Dan Braun, Craig Haffner, Josh Braun and Rick Brookwell completed a partnership agreement with Dark Horse Comics and its CEO Mike Richardson to republish in archival hardcover form all 285 total issues of the original Creepy and Eerie.

[8] Edited by Shawna Gore and Dan Braun with Craig Haffner, it displayed the work of artists Bernie Wrightson, Angelo Torres, Saskia Gutekunst and Jason Shawn Alexander illustrating scripts by Michael Woods,[9] Dan Braun, Joe Harris and Bill Dubay.

The back cover of Roger Taylor's (drummer of rock band Queen) solo project album Fun in Space shows him reading the July 1980 issue of Creepy.

The album's front cover flips the image, showing the alien from that issue reading a magazine about Roger Taylor.