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Post by cfs on Nov 24, 2007 23:56:52 GMT -5
I was in a comic shop today that was a playground for Charlton Books. The store has been around for years but never took back issues seriously. They sell more paperback books than they do comics. But anyway, they had this so I bought it. It's from 1954. It predates most of the series on my list. I'd guess it was one of the first couple of hundred books they printed which is cool if you think how many books they did print. cfs
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Post by G on Nov 25, 2007 1:56:23 GMT -5
I wouldnt mind owning that one bit. Although I dont think too much of the art, it had that typical looking underachieving style about it that they held onto for another 30 years after this.
One thing that made me curious. I know we narrowed the LAST Charlton down to 1 or 2 different possibilities over on your message board. But any thoughts on what may be the 1st Charlton?
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Post by cfs on Nov 25, 2007 3:37:47 GMT -5
"it had that typical looking underachieving style about it that they held onto for another 30 years after this." This made me laugh. You are starting to talk like me. One thing that made me curious. I know we narrowed the LAST Charlton down to 1 or 2 different possibilities over on your message board. But any thoughts on what may be the 1st Charlton? It would be one of the books that that you cited. Unless we saw a release schedule, there is no way to pin it down to one book. cfs
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Post by G on Nov 25, 2007 8:56:50 GMT -5
Well, we only cited 2 books as being the last. Iron Corporal #25 (which I have) is one of them. I forget the other. Someone over at your board found it tied with Iron Corporal.
I havent a clue which one is the 1st Charlton or even a list of candidates. Id have to look at your list and see if we could narrow it down.
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Post by cfs on Nov 25, 2007 11:16:37 GMT -5
I've seen Marvels of Science listed. It's 1946. Zoo Funnies is 1945, so I thought it was that. Yellowjacket Comics is 1944. It must be Yellowjacket.
According to wikipedia, the first "Charlton" imprint was Marvels of Science. The others were the same publisher using a different imprint.
Added some Yellowjacket scans to the checklist.
cfs
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Post by G on Nov 27, 2007 20:41:45 GMT -5
I've seen Marvels of Science listed. It's 1946. Zoo Funnies is 1945, so I thought it was that. Yellowjacket Comics is 1944. It must be Yellowjacket. According to wikipedia, the first "Charlton" imprint was Marvels of Science. The others were the same publisher using a different imprint. Added some Yellowjacket scans to the checklist. cfs Thanks for that. Im going to need to check that out then. I'm very curious of what the possible 1st Charlton looked like.
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Post by G on Nov 27, 2007 20:47:07 GMT -5
I just checked it out. Those were COOL! Some of those links werent working for me. But I'm figuring you dont have scans for those. But I did like that #2. In some ways I could see that Charlton Style sticking out. But one thing that's weird is seeing it being genuine Golden Age. Im used to late Golden/early Atomic. But not TRUE Golden. That part was a trip.
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Post by cfs on Nov 28, 2007 12:08:51 GMT -5
I just checked it out. Those were COOL! Some of those links werent working for me. But I'm figuring you dont have scans for those. But I did like that #2. In some ways I could see that Charlton Style sticking out. But one thing that's weird is seeing it being genuine Golden Age. Im used to late Golden/early Atomic. But not TRUE Golden. That part was a trip. If the number is underlined and a slightly different color, then the link should work. All the Marvels of Science & Yellowjacket should be working if my memory serves me right. I don't own these of course. I'm photoshopping the scans I find online because most have serious defects like tears or discoloration. On some of the Romance comics, a price label might have been covering the comics code logo. I had to remove a green or orange price label and recreate/copy a missing comics code stamp. Some of the Marvels of Science scans had pencils written on them or discoloration the length of the spine. I got rid of most of that. I'm not trying to make them perfect, just better than they were. I took some Mile High scans and removed the Mile High watermark and cleaned up some massive tears that were on their scans. On one of the zoo funnies I had to remove a lot of hand written text over the word balloons. It was nitpicky work and I might not have recreated to original image perfectly. I think I got a helluva lot closer to the original than the were with scribbling all over the text. On a different note, I've just about got all my Pacific Comics scanned. I have a few Captain Victory issues to go. cfs
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Post by G on Nov 28, 2007 21:02:53 GMT -5
Its strange, but there are some links not working for me on Yellowjacket. It gives me a error 403. Wanna know the funny part? Its different than it was yesterday.
Yesterday I could see #2 but not #1. Today is the exact opposite. A few more were giving me errors too. But, some work fine and some dont....at least for me. But, it appears to be fickle on which ones I can see at which times.
BTW, now that I have seen #1, I remember seeing pictures of that one before. Never knew it was a Charlton, or just didnt realize it. But that one is SSSSWWWWEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT!!!!
I'd love to have that one.
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Post by cfs on Nov 29, 2007 16:13:49 GMT -5
Its strange, but there are some links not working for me on Yellowjacket. It gives me a error 403. Wanna know the funny part? Its different than it was yesterday. Yesterday I could see #2 but not #1. Today is the exact opposite. A few more were giving me errors too. But, some work fine and some dont....at least for me. But, it appears to be fickle on which ones I can see at which times. BTW, now that I have seen #1, I remember seeing pictures of that one before. Never knew it was a Charlton, or just didnt realize it. But that one is SSSSWWWWEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT!!!! I'd love to have that one. Hmmm! 403 means the file is probably there, just not accessible... "Your Web server thinks that the HTTP data stream sent by the client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) was correct, but access to the resource identified by the URL is forbidden for some reason. This indicates a fundamental access problem, which may be difficult to resolve because the HTTP protocol allows the Web server to give this response without providing any reason at all. So the 403 error is equivalent to a blanket 'NO' by your Web server - with no further discussion allowed. By far the most common reason for this error is that directory browsing is forbidden for the Web site. Most Web sites want you to navigate using the URLs in the Web pages for that site. They do not often allow you to browse the file directory structure of the site. For example try the following URL (then hit the 'Back' button in your browser to return to this page):" Did you try and cheat and change the number in the URL, or did you click back to the list and click the other number. I think I can resolve that discrepancy, it's just involves a little... well... a lot more work. A 404 error will pop up a completely unrelated page that the host throws out there to promote their own content. Yellowjacket was published by Charlton before the Charlton name/imprint was adopted. The 1st Charlton imprint is evidently Marvels of Science #1. cfs
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