Charlton Spotlight Magazine (2000) comic books
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Issue #2
Printings may vary. Charlton Spotlight Magazine (2000) was published by Argo Press. These magazines explore the history of the Charlton Comics Group. Issue # 2 explores the whole range of Charlton's comics line, from Abbott & Costello to Zoo Funnies and everything inbetween. Features articles and interviews with Bill Black, Ron Frantz, Joe Shuster, Pat Boyette, and many others. 40 pages. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #3
Printings may vary. This issue pays tribute to the memory of the late, great artist-writer Tom Sutton. Featuring articles and art by Steve Skeates, Nicola Cuti, Bill Pearson, Batton Lash, Jim Amash, Bhob Stewart, Steve Fiorilla and Stefan Petrucha, we explore Sutton's comics legacy? highlighting his critical Charlton Comics years while looking at his work for Warren and other publishers, with many rare, obscure and unpublished photos and illustrations along the way. In addition to some never-before-seen pages from Tom's work on the unpublished sequel to Squalor (from First Publishing), there's also a Charlton-era Sutton interview by Mark Burbey, a complete classic Sutton Charlton story reprint (over Wally Wood layouts!), a detailed checklist of Sutton's Charlton work, and a gallery of his top Charlton covers. Rounding out the issue are interviews with Charlton/Gold Key/DC artist Jose Delbo and Archie artist Henry Scarpelli, plus remembrances of Jack Keller, Grass Green and Pete Morisi. With the usual extensive Charlton checklists and cover galleries, news, reviews, readers departments and more. (Argo Press) Magazine, 72pg, b&w $7.95 Cover price $7.95.
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Issue #4
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View scanPrintings may vary. Exploring the legacy of 20th-century publisher Charlton Comics Group. This issue features a tribute to Pete Pam Morisi, creator of Thunderbolt, with articles by Steve Skeates and Ron Frantz, and rare and unpublished Morisi art. Also, a feature on Charltons monster magazines, and a rumination by Tom Christopher about Charltons final days. Black and white; 76 pages. Cover by Morisi. Cover price $7.95. Cover price $7.95.
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Issue #5
Printings may vary. The issue all true Charlton fans have been waiting for! Living legend Joe Gill talks to interviewer Jim Amash about his career in comics from the Golden Age to the Bronze and beyond, with behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the artists, editors and publishers Joe knew during his 30+ years and tens of thousands of pages of Charlton stories. Plus: Mark Burbey and Gene Phillips take in-depth looks at the origins of the Gill-Ditko action-heroes Captain Atom, Blue Beetle and The Question; Steve Skeates tells the story behind a story that began as a DC Phantom Stranger adventure and became a Charlton Dr. Graves tale with Marvel-ous overtones in "Graves Acting Strangely"; Ron Frantz recalls his 1980's collaborations with Gill, Ditko, McLaughlin, Toth and (almost) Harlan Ellison; and Steve Skeates returns with a personal memoir of his early Dr. Graves and Thane of Bagarth work with the late, great Jim Aparo. Also: A detailed look at the 1970's Charlton "text stories experiment" by Ramon Schenk and new installments of Nicola Cuti's Weirdlings cartoons and Howard Davis' With Pen & Brush, all wrapped inside a special Joe Gill cover painting by ex-Charlton writer-editor Nicola Cuti. 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $7.95.
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Issue #7
Printings may vary. This issue features a lively, lengthy conversation with George Wildman, Charlton Comics' last and greatest editor, with cartoonist Hy Eisman sitting in. George reminisces on his long tenure at Charlton, from his selection as Popeye artist to his term as Charlton's managing editor, from his early advertising career and his 1950s Charlton work to candid comments on the creators he worked with. We also his post-Charlton career in children's books to the specialty educational work he's doing today. 40 pages Cover price $7.95.
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Issue #8
Printings may vary. This very special issue features the first full-length interview with the legendary Nicola Cuti in over a decade. The former Charlton Comics assistant editor and writer recalls working with editor George Wildman and writer Joe Gill and artists Wally Wood, Joe Staton, Steve Ditko, Tom Sutton, Wayne Howard, and many others, all liberally illustrated with rare and unpublished photos and art. Next up is a vintage Charlton Doomsday+1 story by Tom Sutton, lost for over three decades. Cover price $7.95.
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Issue #9
Printings may vary. Stories and art by Nicola Cuti, John Rose, Donnie Pitchford and George Wildman. Charlton Spotlight Magazine explores the history of the Charlton Comics Group. An interview with Will Franz, co-creator of The Iron Corporal and The Lonely War of Capt. Willy Schultz. A look at Charlton's whimsical 1950s mash-up comic, Space Western. Plus a Snuffy Smith strip by John Rose, a new Atomic Rabbit strip, and long-lost Weird Kids cartoons by Nicola Cuti. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., PC/PB&W, 60 pages. Cover price $9.95.
