Received by e-mail 9 May 2000

Somehow, it all made sense.

Received by e-mail 15 May 2000

I have been a Vampi fan for a very long time. I collect everything EVERYTHING, that is even remotely Vampi related. 

I had always gone to the cons, and got autographs from the writers and artists. I had even caught up with a few of the models at cons and shot a few hundred pictures. Overall, a fairly balanced collection. 

I shot about 210 pictures of her that day, and from that point on--- my collection turned more towards the models. I still pursue every issue and item. But I go for anything that involves the models, even if not Vampi related.

And email is just the greatest thing   in the world. I just love Barbara Leigh, Sascha Knopf, Brinke Stevens, Carolyn Renee Smith, Julie Strain, and all the rest. But Leslie-- Leslie stole a small part of me two years ago, and she will not give it back. 

Vampi fan forever, maybe longer.

"Other than family members, This is my favorite picture of all times.

Forget the body, if you can -- that face is just so hauntingly  ...... beautiful."

My father bought 2nd hand comics by the box full, and in them I discovered Vampirella along with the rest of my favourite characters still to this day.  I was only a little girl when I first started reading the black and white old Vampi magazines, (half of them scaring me so that I would stay away for a while, but I always came back). I knew there was something special about her. She was, and still is such a sensual character that everybody gains something from her presence, whether they be young, old, male or female.

We never did have them in complete order, and I fell out of comics for several years and upon rediscovering them, found I was totally lost when it came to what had happened to Vampirella.

Website Editor's note: Although this letter from Bob Statzer is partly congratulatory, I wanted to share it because of the enthusiasm for Vampirella and the lengths this sometimes takes (a 16mm student film is quite encouraging).  Thanks Bob for your contribution.

Having only been used to things like Creepy and Eerie (or some of their imitators), I was totally blown away by my first issue. At the time, I never had an inkling of going after a lot of the back issues (which would have still been affordable and easy to complete the collection back then), but did steadily grab up each new issue as it came out. 

Then came the day when Warren Publishing, which seemed to have an identity crisis in the late '70s and early '80s, closed their doors. I pretty much wrote off ever seeing our gal again. (And I still had a lot of "what if" dreams of what could have come from the proposed Hammer Films adaptation from those golden years.)

Since I had been doing a lot of student films, and even took a course in animation, I began to think that Vampirella would be the perfect subject for an animated adventure, ala Max Fleischer's SUPERMAN series. Although I did a script and prepared some production art, we never got the project off the ground, since the 16mm animation camera died on us and parts were no longer available. (Some of these student filmmaking misadventures are covered in the 2001 Scary Monsters Magazine Yearbook.) With anime' being popular, and all the amazing computer animation being done, maybe one day we'll see Vampirella on the screen....

Best wishes always,