* Charlton Comics ( some properties acquired 1983 )

The early 1970s saw a Gothic Romance comic book mini-trend with such titles as DC Comics ' The Dark Mansion Of Forbidden Love and The Sinister House of Secret Love, Charlton Comics ' Haunted Love, Curtis Magazines ' Gothic Tales of Love, and Atlas / Seaboard Comics ' one-shot magazine Gothic Romances.

During this time, he then began his long association with Charlton Comics, where he did work in the genres of science fiction, horror, and mystery.

Ditko then worked for Charlton and DC Comics, making major contributions, including a revamp of long-running character Blue Beetle, and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, and Hawk and Dove.

Category: Charlton Comics titles

The former Charlton Comics characters — notably Blue Beetle II — were introduced to the DC Universe.

* The Jetsons # 1 – 20 ( Charlton Comics, November 1970 – December 1973 ); 100-page no-number issue

Lustig has also become known for his clever post-modern rescripting of panels from old romance comic pages previously published by Charlton Comics under the banner Last Kiss.

Charlton Comics was an American comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1985, having begun under a different name ( T. W. O.

Charlton Comics published a wide variety of genres, including crime, science fiction, Western, horror, war and romance comics, as well as funny animal and superhero titles.

Charlton Comics were also the last of the American comics to raise their price from ten cents to 12 cents in mid-1962.

Following the adoption of the Charlton Comics name in 1946, the company over the next five years acquired material from freelance editor and comics packager Al Fago ( brother of former Timely Comics editor Vincent Fago ).

Charlton additionally published Merry Comics, Cowboy Western, the Western title Tim McCoy, and Pictorial Love Stories.

Charlton also picked up a number of Western titles from the defunct Fawcett Comics line, including Gabby Hayes Western, Lash LaRue Western, Monte Hale Western, Rocky Lane Western.

( After the mid-1980s demise of Charlton, Captain Atom would go on to become a stalwart of the DC stable, as would Blue Beetle, the old Fox Comics superhero revived by Gill and artists Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico as a campy, comedic character in Blue Beetle # 1 1964.

None of these measures worked however, and in 1984 Charlton Comics suspended publication.

But later that same year, Charlton Comics went out of business ; Charlton Publications followed suit in 1991, and its building and press were demolished in 1999.

He would produce several reprint titles under the company name of Avalon Communications and its imprint America's Comics Group ( ACG for short, Broughton having also purchased the rights to the defunct American Comics Group properties ), and announced plans to restart Charlton Comics.

* List of Charlton Comics publications

The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, who patented a postal card, selling the rights to Hymen Lipman, whose postcards, complete with a decorated border, were labeled " Lipman's postal card.

The Lonely Mountain: Lair of Smaug the Dragon is a board game produced in 1985 by Iron Crown Enterprises, designed by Coleman Charlton which features groups of adventurers, either Dwarves, Elves, Orcs or Men entering Smaug's Lair to capture his treasure before he awakens.

The CPL Gang also produced an in-house fanzine called Charlton Bullseye, which published, among other things, such commissioned but previously unpublished material as the company's last Captain Atom story.

Over the years, the club have produced players of the highest calibre more than once, including Graham Williams ( West Bromwich Albion ), Barry Horne ( Everton ), Andy Jones ( Charlton Athletic ), Andy Holden ( Oldham Athletic ) and most recently Lee Trundle ( Bristol City ) after seeing his career revitalised in his short spell with Rhyl in 2000 – 01.

On film, years before he became a superstar, the seventeen-year-old Charlton Heston starred as Peer in a silent, student-made, low budget film version of the play produced in 1941.

Charlton Heston's production company, Agamemnon Films ( in association with GoodTimes Entertainment ), produced this version of the story, this one a made-for-video animated version, with Heston himself giving voice to the title character.

Santa Claus Lane features production from Matthew Gerrard, Chris Hamm, Alain Bertoni, Charlie Midnight and Chico Bennett ; on the 2003 reissue, the bonus track " What Christmas Should Be " is produced by Charlton Pettus.

In 1961, Charlton Comics produced a comic book based on the film.

The game was designed by Coleman Charlton, produced and marketed by

In 1981, there was yet another attempt at new material, with a comic book version of Charlton Bullseye serving as a new-talent showcase that actively solicited submissions by comic book fans, and an attempt at new Ditko-produced titles.

In 1966, Gold Key Comics published two issues of a Secret Agent comic book based upon the series ( this series should not be confused with Secret Agent, an unrelated comic book series published by Charlton Comics in 1967, formerly titled Sarge Steel ).

Charlton, for example, writing in 1938, argues that " clearly, Shakespeare's first attempt to make romantic comedy had only succeeded so far as it had unexpectedly and inadvertenly made romance comic.

* Hercules: Adventures of the Man-God, a 1967-1969 comic book series from Charlton Comics

A comic book-format title called Crazy, Man, Crazy was published by Humor Magazines ( Charlton Comics Group )' s for two issues from Dec. 1955 – June 1955.

This Beetle received his own series in 1967, but the entire Charlton " Action Heroes " line of comic books ceased publication in 1968.

Charlton Comics published a separate Tales of the Mysterious Traveler comic book for 13 issues from 1956 to 1959, followed by two more issues in 1985 ( shortly before the company went under ).

In 1999, Fascinating Aida's comic revue was followed by Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue, with Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason ; Love Letters, by A. R. Gurney, with Charlton Heston ; and a transfer of the Chichester Festival's The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Patricia Routledge.

Richard Joseph " Dick " Giordano ( July 20, 1932 – March 27, 2010 ) was an American comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics ' " Action Heroes " stable of superheroes, and serving as executive editor of then – industry leader DC Comics.

Beginning as a freelance artist at Charlton Comics in 1952, Giordano contributed artwork to dozens of the company's comics, including such Western titles as Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, and Wyatt Earp, the war comic Fightin ' Army, and scores of covers.

By 1971, frustrated by what he felt was a lack of editorial opportunities, Giordano had left DC to partner with artist Neal Adams for their Continuity Associates studios, which served as an art packager for comic book publishers, including such companies as Giordano's former employer Charlton Comics, Marvel Comics, and the one-shot Big Apple Comix.

Thunderbolt was briefly shown in flashbacks in Alex Ross and Mark Waid's comic Kingdom Come as a member of Magog's Justice Battalion, along with the rest of the Charlton ' Action Heroes '.

In 1981, Nightshade would appear in issue # 7 of the new Charlton Bullseye comic.

In 1966, editor Dick Giordano at Charlton Comics hired him as a comic book artist, where his first assignment was a humorous character called " Miss Bikini Luv " in " Go-Go Comics.

In the late 1960s, Dick Giordano left Charlton for an editorial position at DC Comics and offered Aparo a job drawing the Aquaman comic book.

Charlton Comics, an American comic book publisher, publishes its first title, Yellowjacket, an anthology of superhero and horror stories, under the imprint Frank Comunale Publications.

The Charlton comic featured artwork by Dick Giordano and Rocco " Rocke " Mastroserio and lasted 58 issues.

The Flagston family was also featured in a series of Charlton comic books.

AC Comics had used Charlton Comics characters, particularly the Blue Beetle and Captain Atom, in the comic title Sentinels of Justice.