Club Charlton (Space-based) |
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The company’s comics output ranged from the above genres to funny animals, war comics, sf, Superhero adventures and many horror titles. Strange Suspense Stories was an anthology title picked up from Fawcett, continuing into the mid-1960s and featuring some sf amid its supernatural tales. Several issues appeared under the alternative title This Is Suspense!. Space Adventures ran from 1952 to 1967 with gaps, some minor variant titles and a late issue in 1967. It is most important for introducing the superhero Captain Atom, created in 1960 by artist Steve Ditko and the incredibly prolific writer Joe Gill. Gill was active from the 1940s into the 1980s, mostly for Charlton until its closure in 1986. Further Charlton titles with Gill scripts and Ditko artwork included Unusual Tales (1955-1965), Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (1956-1965), Out of This World (1956-1959), Outer Space (1958-1959) and Space War (1959-1964). ~ Charlton Comics – SF Encyclopedia
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