Where is the Charlton love???

[com1cbook]

Is there a Charlton appreciation thread?

I searched, but I am not seeing one.

[JazzMan]

CharltonGuy took it with him on the way out.

[kav]

[BlowUpTheMoon]

Is there a Charlton appreciation thread?

I searched, but I am not seeing one.

 

It exists. Ya just gotta poke around.

 

More.

 

 

[com1cbook]

Thanks Blowupthemotion.

That settles it.

I will start one.

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

Is there a Charlton appreciation thread?

I searched, but I am not seeing one.

 

 

LINK

[Aweandlorder]

Wheres that video of old charlton comics being tossed to the fireplace anyone?

[kav]

[comicjack]

Thanks Blowupthemotion.

That settles it.

I will start one.

Do it!

[Count Zero]

My father worked for Charlton as a kid. He helped feed paper into the machines (thumbs u

[com1cbook]

That sounds like dangerous work for a kid.

Did he get free comics?

[Count Zero]

He did! It was one of the first jobs he got in Conneticut after he moved here from Italy.. I think he must have been somewhere between age 12-14 at the time.

 

He told me last Christmas that if he had any idea that the comics would have been worth anything that he would have kept some. He mentioned that they were allowed to take as many as they wanted. But, like I said... He didn't keep any of them for very long.

[That Ron Dude]

I remember getting one, a war comic, as a birthday party favour, when I was child of perhaps seven. The colours were misaligned, the story was non existent and the artist couldn't draw much better than I, though I earned only a "C" in art back there in grade two. Yet, the comic cost 12c, the same as a Superman. I concluded that they were for the mentally handicapped.

[joe_collector]

I remember getting one, a war comic, as a birthday party favour, when I was child of perhaps seven. The colours were misaligned, the story was non existent and the artist couldn't draw much better than I, though I earned only a "C" in art back there in grade two. Yet, the comic cost 12c, the same as a Superman. I concluded that they were for the mentally handicapped.

 

That pretty well sums up Charlton in a nutshell, and other than the Byrne issues, I will never own a Charlton comic.

 

But at least a board member's story cleared up one question I've always had about the absolutely horrible production quality of these books - they had KIDS running the presses.

[Ken Aldred]

I remember getting one, a war comic, as a birthday party favour, when I was child of perhaps seven. The colours were misaligned, the story was non existent and the artist couldn't draw much better than I, though I earned only a "C" in art back there in grade two. Yet, the comic cost 12c, the same as a Superman. I concluded that they were for the mentally handicapped.

 

That pretty well sums up Charlton in a nutshell, and other than the Byrne issues, I will never own a Charlton comic.

 

But at least a board member's story cleared up one question I've always had about the absolutely horrible production quality of these books - they had KIDS running the presses.

 

Let's be fair, his father and the other Charlton employees didn't exactly have decent tools to work with, printing and cutting comic books using a second-hand cereal box press.

 

Lots of nice, Steve Ditko art, some Neal Adams in the 70s, and early Byrne, Aparo, Zeck, Staton, Giordano.

[com1cbook]

Exactly. Charlton was the minor leagues for comic book talent at a time when self publishing tools were not widespread.

 

New Charlton thread coming when i get home from work tonight. This is already more interesting than i had hoped.

[Ken Aldred]

 

 

At this year's London con I picked up the Action Heroes Vol. 1 Archive, which contains most of the Ditko Captain Atom issues. Nice book.

[comicjack]

I have quite a few titles and can post but i'll let you start' the fun

[Gary Strange]

Let me know, I have a couple books I can share.

[Aweandlorder]

Best thing to come out of Charlton...

 

were these t-shirts