Charlton’s Space Adventures #33 (January 1960) introduces a new super-hero: Captain Atom! Created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko, Captain Adam was a physics prodigy, chemist, and ballistics genius but woops, he drops a screwdriver and is trapped on a rocket carrying an atomic bomb that detonates in space. He rematerializes soon after back near […]
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If Crazy was a footnote on history’s page about Mad Magazine, Eh! must be a footnote of a footnote. Charlton Comics came out with Eh #1 (October 1953) which was basically another copy of EC’s Mad. Satire-based stories that included fake ads – a staple that became so important with Mad Magazine.
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Yellowjacket makes his debut in Yellowjacket Comics #1 (July 1944), the first comic book from The Frank Comunale Publishing Company. This company would eventually become Charlton Comics. Charlton Comics were later known for their stable of Silver Age superheroes like Captain Atom, The Question, Peacemaker, Nightshade as well as the Ted Kord version of the […]
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