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Jones' career began in the early 1970s when he moved to New York City from his native Kansas City, Missouri , looking for work as a Comics Artist . He made his professional debut with Major Publications ' black-and-white Horror -comics Magazine '' Web Of Horror '' #3 (April 1970), writing and drawing the six-page story "Point Of View". Jones went on to write punchy and graphic horror-comics tales for industry leader Warren Publishing 's '' Creepy '' and '' Eerie '', and under the Pseudonym Philip Roland, for rival Skywald 's line. Jones later freelanced for Marvel, writing stories for '' Ka-Zar '' and '' Conan The Barbarian '', as well as writing and drawing Anthological Science Fiction and others stories for Marvel's black-and-white magazine line. From 1982-1984, Jones Edited , and chiefly wrote, the Pacific Comics titles '' Twisted Tales '' and '' Alien Worlds ''. When Pacific went bankrupt after publishing only a few issues of these, two subsequent issues were published by Eclipse Comics . By the early 1990s, Jones had shifted to scriptwriting for Television and Film , working on HBO 's '' The Hitchhiker '' TV Series before eventually returning to Kansas City. In 2001, he was contacted by Marvel editor . In 2005, Jones 10-page story "Jenifer" from '' Creepy '' #63 (July 1974), drawn by Bernie Wrightson , became the basis for filmmaker Dario Argento 's segment of '' Masters Of Horror '', a Showtime television series. "Jenifer" — which aired Nov. 18, 2005, with a script adaptation by actor Steven Weber , who co-starred — was an erotically tinged horror story involving a deformed young woman. The episode provided Argento with his best critical notices in years. He is currently writing '' Nightwing '' for DC Comics. QUOTES ''' out in Long Island . His company, Major Magazines, put out '' Cracked '' magazine.... A fellow named Terry Bisson tracked down me, Mike Kaluta , and Jeff Jones , and presented us with a proposal to do this black-and-white horror magazine in competition with ''Creepy''. ...Bisson (who was writing blurb copy for Romance magazines when I first met him) left after the third issue under very mysterious circumstances — and the running of the whole magazine, for some reason, fell into Bruce Jones' and my laps (and I can't remember if Terry said, 'Here, you guys take over the editorial', or if we volunteered). Bruce and I put together the whole fourth issue, which had already been assigned. We were working at home! We had to take this incredibly long trip to get [to Major Magazines — Bruce lived in Flushing at the time and from there we took a train to the end of the line and from there we had to take two buses and then walk about 10 blocks to get to the office! It was an all-day thing and we finally get out to the office.... and the place was empty. All the desks, all the filing cabinets, everything, was gone! ... [W]e never learned where the guy went and what happened to him. We had all this stuff for the fourth issue and we were planning issues five and six — Bruce and I were going to take over the magazine and make it like Creepy or EC Comics — but they just left! ... Whatever had been turned in already, they took with them. I don't think anybody got paid for anything — and Bruce and I took a bath on it". REFERENCES
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