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Charlton, Dell, Gold Key, and Harvey...

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porcupine48

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Always loved Charlton horror! :cloud9:

There are some gems in there...

 

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Charlton seemed to re use covers fairly often...I have a Haunted with the same cover as the Scary Tales but with a blue background,and can think of a few others in my head right now but can't remember titles,issues exactly.I ADORE Charltons of that era...well any era really.... :cloud9: sorry,Scary #42.

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Yes, they absolutely reused a lot of the older art on the later books. What a cost saver that must have been for them. I wonder if they just reshot the covers from archived stats, or how I would like to imagine, they had the original art boards just packed away in a closet. Just thinking of a room filled with original Ditko and Tom Sutton artwork! :cloud9:

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Ken Aldred

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... For me, the ultimate dross in PCH has to belong to Minoan publications ("Tales of Horror" and the like.) Even as much as I love Mister Mystery, Weird Mysteries, etc. for their covers, and excluding Wolverton gems (of course), some of their internal art was infernal at best, and not in the good pre-code way; more dross. :)

 

I've just spotted 'Tales of Horror' on Digital Comic Museum.

 

I'll have something to read if I feel like punishing myself one day, then? lol

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MusterMark

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Charlton, Dell, Gold Key, Harvey.

 

I have tons of it. And I do like it all. I wouldn't even know where to begin ...

 

I especially like the fact that many of the titles were Actual "funny books" - the concept that comic books were meant to be comical/humorous. Generally speaking, it is high time these titles got more respect and carried more value.

 

 

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Harvey was a mixed bag of good and bad, the covers even in the best cases never living up to their sweet promises! This was the case for all PCH books. Here's a great example from Harvey, love this cover...HATE the cover story! :pullhair:

What horror was lurking "Up There!"???

 

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It turns out to be a...wait for the scare...A HOTDOG CART!!!

Yep, a scary old hotdog cart dumped on the mountaintop that makes the guy go crazy! I guess it didn't take much to make people flip out back in the 50's! :facepalm:

 

I don't collect PHC titles, nor know much about them.

I have been able though, to see and now know some classic and or cool covers, through the years here.

I have never seen this cover before. I will totally agree with you that this indeed is an awesome cover! Something about it that just makes it uniquely cool - I fricken dig it!!

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Harvey was a mixed bag of good and bad, the covers even in the best cases never living up to their sweet promises! This was the case for all PCH books. Here's a great example from Harvey, love this cover...HATE the cover story! :pullhair:

What horror was lurking "Up There!"???

 

WitchesTales26.jpg

 

 

 

It turns out to be a...wait for the scare...A HOTDOG CART!!!

Yep, a scary old hotdog cart dumped on the mountaintop that makes the guy go crazy! I guess it didn't take much to make people flip out back in the 50's! :facepalm:

 

I don't collect PHC titles, nor know much about them.

I have been able though, to see and now know some classic and or cool covers, through the years here.

I have never seen this cover before. I will totally agree with you that this indeed is an awesome cover! Something about it that just makes it uniquely cool - I fricken dig it!!

 

The fact that it turns out to be a hot dog cart is just awesome. :)

 

And BTW, Lee Elias was such an incredible artist, eh?!

Some of the covers he did on comics I happen to own are amazing.

 

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As for Gold Key, I collected Magnus, Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe it or Not and (possibly my favorite) UFO and Flying Saucers. I was at that age that I thought flying saucers were cool!

Still, horror and mystery remained my main focus.

 

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porcupine48

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Harvey was a mixed bag of good and bad, the covers even in the best cases never living up to their sweet promises! This was the case for all PCH books. Here's a great example from Harvey, love this cover...HATE the cover story! :pullhair:

What horror was lurking "Up There!"???

 

WitchesTales26.jpg

 

 

 

It turns out to be a...wait for the scare...A HOTDOG CART!!!

Yep, a scary old hotdog cart dumped on the mountaintop that makes the guy go crazy! I guess it didn't take much to make people flip out back in the 50's! :facepalm:

 

I don't collect PHC titles, nor know much about them.

I have been able though, to see and now know some classic and or cool covers, through the years here.

I have never seen this cover before. I will totally agree with you that this indeed is an awesome cover! Something about it that just makes it uniquely cool - I fricken dig it!!

How about the mega classic cover to Chamber of Chills #19....the story on the interior is what,two pages?;)

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porcupine48

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As for Gold Key, I collected Magnus, Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe it or Not and (possibly my favorite) UFO and Flying Saucers. I was at that age that I thought flying saucers were cool!

Still, horror and mystery remained my main focus.

 

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One of the first books I remember getting at a yard sale....I loved it so much I read it till the cover fell off...still have it,and a replacement.That is a great looking copy.The other comic I remember getting that day was a Boris as well,with a red trex on the cover....oh,and every. Tragg that was there...oh those sky gods.

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This is the sort of book I would have bought off of the newsstand as a kid. In the 60s, without hundreds of TV stations, DVDs, PVRs or digital downloads, anything you saw on TV was pretty much a one-shot deal -- with repeats being hit and miss.

 

There was a strong tie in between TV and comic books -- the comic books providing the permanence to a TV show or movie that you couldn't find any other way.*

 

*I suppose Viewmaster slides were another way.

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Harvey was a mixed bag of good and bad, the covers even in the best cases never living up to their sweet promises! This was the case for all PCH books. Here's a great example from Harvey, love this cover...HATE the cover story! :pullhair:

What horror was lurking "Up There!"???

 

WitchesTales26.jpg

 

 

It turns out to be a...wait for the scare...A HOTDOG CART!!!

Yep, a scary old hotdog cart dumped on the mountaintop that makes the guy go crazy! I guess it didn't take much to make people flip out back in the 50's! :facepalm:

 

The fact that it turns out to be a hot dog cart is just awesome. :)

 

I agree! That would make the story.

 

lol

 

 

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porcupine48

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Such great books being shown around here.

Indeed!I have been in love with GK's painted covers since I was a kid.

@Jayman:That's the one!I'll have to get up an image of mine.I still have the other Boris I got that day as well,with a giant chameleon coming out of a chandelier.They should be in the same spot,and I actually know where they are!

Hey Hepcat, gonna strut some stuff here?Some Gorgo maybe?

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porcupine48

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Yes, they absolutely reused a lot of the older art on the later books. What a cost saver that must have been for them. I wonder if they just reshot the covers from archived stats, or how I would like to imagine, they had the original art boards just packed away in a closet. Just thinking of a room filled with original Ditko and Tom Sutton artwork! :cloud9:

Did they not lose all the original art in a giant warehouse fire?I read about that here somewhere.....a total loss of decades of hoarded art and backissues... :cry:

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