Charlton Comics (Yellowjacket Comics, Space Adventures, The Thing, etc.) 3 3

[Electricmastro]

An appreciation thread for Charlton Comics, who started off with Yellowjacket Comics in 1944 and continued to publish comics after 1956. They eventually went defunct in 1986, with their longest-running series during their Golden Age years having been Fightin’ Marines, I Love You, and Hot Rods and Racing Cars.

Their comics include:

Fightin' Marines (1955)

In Love/I Love You (1955)

Hot Rods and Racing Cars (1951)

Sweethearts (1954)

Romantic Story/Cowboy Love (1954)

Six-Gun Heroes (1954)

Black Fury (1955)

My Little Margie (1954)

Atomic Mouse (1953)

Lawbreakers/Lawbreakers Suspense Stories/Strange Suspense Stories/This Is Suspense/Terry and the Pirates (1951)

Unusual Tales (1955)

Li'l Genius (1954)

Negro Romance/Romantic Secrets (1955)

Lash Larue Western (1954)

Sweetheart Diary (1955)

Rocky Lane Western (1954)

Catholic Comics (1946)

Racket Squad in Action (1952)

True Life Secrets (1951)

Tex Ritter Western (1954)

Crime and Justice/Badge of Justice/Rookie Cop (1951)

Yellowjacket Comics/Jack-in-the-Box Comics/Cowboy Western Comics/Space Western/Cowboy Western Heroes/Cowboy Western (1944)

Space Adventures (1952)

The Thing/Blue Beetle (1952)

Zoo Funnies/Tim McCoy/Pictorial Love Stories/Nyoka the Jungle Girl (1945)

TV Teens (1954)

Atomic Rabbit (1955)

My Little Margie's Boyfriends (1955)

Gabby Hayes (1954)

Davy Crockett (1955)

Funny Animals (1954)

Masked Raider (1955)

Eh!/From Here to Insanity/Crazy, Man, Crazy (1953)

This Magazine Is Haunted/Danger and Adventure (1954)

Wild Frontier (1955)

Monte Hale Western (1955)

Soldier and Marine Comics (1954)

Charlie Chan (1955)

Don Winslow of the Navy (1955)

Frank Merriwell at Yale (1955)

Hillbilly Comics (1955)

Marvels of Science (1946)

Ramar of the Jungle (1955)

Scotland Yard (1955)

Sunset Carson (1951)

Bo (1955)

Brenda Starr (1955)

Bullseye/Cody of the Pony Express (1955)

Danger (1955)

Death Valley (1955)

Never Again/Fox Hole (1955)

Johnny Dynamite (1955)

Range Busters (1955)

Record! (1948)

Danny Blaze (1955)

Police Trap (1955)

Sherlock Holmes (1955)

Win a Prize Comics (1955)

Peter Paul's 4 in 1 Jumbo Comic Book (1953)

Silly Pilly Comics (1950)

Other appreciation threads: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/470215-publisher-appreciation-threads/

Edited August 24, 2020 by Electricmastro

[Marty Mann]

Some say this is the FIRST CHARLTON...some say it's not. 

 

[Marty Mann]

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right up my alley

 

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[fifties]

Charlton Comics were generally pretty good reads, AFA crime and horror, and they didn't hold back on gruesomeness.  I think the TMIH cover is by Ditko.

[MrBedrock]

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[1950's war comics]

i thought Charltons were pure drek till i saw some of these.  

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[Inaflash]

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