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Publisher: Charlton
Years in Operation: 1933 - 1995
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 21 Indicia Publishers: 21 Series: 388 Printings: 6869 (6558 Issues) Disclose Notes: Charlton began in 1933 with Hit Parader magazine, publishing song lyrics. Charlton Comics published comics from 1944 - 1987. The last of the magazines were published in the mid-1990s.   Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
150 New Cartoons {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: A combination of jokes, gag cartoons and pin-up photographs, the contents differed over the years.
1962 - 1977 76 (77)
175 New Cartoons {Comic Books} 1977 - 1978 7
1776 [Charlton Classics Library] {Comic Books} 1973 - 1
Abbott & Costello {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the Hanna-Barbera versions of the characters. Indicia title is "Abbott & Costello" in issue #2.
1968 - 1971 22
All-American Sports {Comic Books} 1967 - 1
Army Attack {Comic Books} 1964 - 1965 4
Army Attack {Comic Books} 1965 - 1967 10
Army War Heroes {Comic Books} 1963 - 1970 38
Atom the Cat {Comic Books} 1957 - 1959 9
Atomic Bunny {Comic Books} 1958 - 1959 8
Atomic Mouse {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Overstreet has listed #53-54, but there is no evidence they actually exist.
Public Domain
1953 - 1963 52 (60)
Atomic Mouse {Comic Books} 1961 - 1962 5 (6)
Atomic Mouse {Comic Books} 1984 - 1
Atomic Mouse {Comic Books} 1985 - 1986 3
Atomic Rabbit {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1958 11
Attack {Comic Books} Public Domain 1958 - 1959 7
Attack {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Published annually.
1962 - 1964 3 (4)
Attack {Comic Books} 1966 - 1967 2
Attack {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Sixteen month hiatus between issue #14 (November 1973) and #15 (March 1975), and again a hiatus until #16 (1979).
1971 - 1984 48
Attack {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering continues from Attack (Charlton, 1971 series).
1979 - 1984 0
Attack "at Sea" {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title is Attack "at Sea" while cover title is simply Attack at Sea.
1968 - 1
Badge of Justice {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering continues in Badge of Justice (Charlton, 1955 series), second series.
1955 - 1
Badge of Justice {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering continues from Badge of Justice (Charlton, 1955 series) #22 [1].
1955 - 3
Barney & Betty {Comic Books} 1974 - 1
Barney and Betty Rubble {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on Hanna-Barbera characters. The indicia titles in issues #5-6 say "Barney & Betty Rubble", all others say "Barney and Betty Rubble".
1973 - 1976 23
Barney and Betty Rubble Digest Annual {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on Hanna-Barbera characters.
1972 - 1
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith {Comic Books} 1970 - 1971 6
Battlefield Action {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There is a significant hiatus between #63 (1966) and #64 (1980).
Public Domain
1957 - 1984 74 (76)
Beetle Bailey {Comic Books} 1969 - 1976 53 (54)
Beetle Bailey [Bold Detergent Giveaway] {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Interior contents the same as issue #67 of regular Charlton series.
1969 - 1
Beetle Bailey [Cerebral Palsy Association edition] {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indica notes: "This is a special reprint edition published especially for Cerebral Palsy Association Oakland, Calif. by Charlton Press Inc."
1970 - 2
Best New Cartoons {Comic Books} 1960 - 1964 11
The Best of Good Humor {Comic Books} 1960 - ? 1
The Best of Marmaduke {Comic Books} 1960 - 1
Beyond the Grave {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publishing hiatus between issues #6, June 1976 and #7, January 1983.
1975 - 1984 17 (20)
Billy the Kid {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publishing hiatus from January 1977 (#121) to August 1977 (#122). Publishing hiatus from November 1977 (#123) to January 1978 (#124).
Public Domain
1957 - 1983 145 (147)
The Bionic Woman {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based upon the 1976-1978 television series starring Lindsay Wagner, a spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man.
1977 - 1978 5
Black Fury {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1966 57 (59)
Black Fury {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Shoe store giveaways.
Public Domain
1959 - 1962 15 (35)
Blondie {Comic Books} 1969 - 1976 46
The Blue Beetle {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 4
Blue Beetle {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This Blue Beetle is Dan Garrett, Egyptologist. Loosely based on the Fox Blue Beetle. Notable as Charlton's first foray into Silver Age super-heroes.
Public Domain
1964 - 1965 5
Blue Beetle {Comic Books} 1965 - 1966 5
Blue Beetle {Comic Books} 1967 - 1968 5
Bo {Comic Books} 1955 - 3
Bobby Sherman {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the TV show "Getting Together."
1972 - 7
Brenda Starr {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 3
Brides in Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1956 - 1965 45 (49)
Bugaloos {Comic Books} 1971 - 1972 4
Bullseye {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Title confirmed from check of the indicia of both issues.
Public Domain
1955 - 2
Bullwinkle and Rocky {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the 1959-1964 television show that had two different titles in its original run ("Rocky and His Friends" and "The Bullwinkle Show") and several more titles in syndicated reruns, but is known now as "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends".
1970 - 1971 7
Campus Humor {Comic Books} 1957 - 3
Capt. Willy Schultz {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title is "Capt. Willie Schultz" for #76 & "Capt. Willy Schultz" for #77 ("Willy" on covers of both issues).
1985 - 1986 2 (3)
Captain Atom {Comic Books} 1965 - 1967 12
Captain Gallant {Comic Books} Public Domain 1956 - 3
Career Girl Romances {Comic Books} 1964 - 1972 55
Caroline Kennedy {Comic Books} 1961 - 1
Cartoon Carnival {Comic Books} 1962 - 1985 118 (119)
Cartoon Spice {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There may be more issues to be documented.
1957 - 1958 5
Catholic Comics {Comic Books} 1946 - 1949 29
Charlie Chan {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1956 4
Charlton Action: Featuring "Static" {Comic Books} 1985 - 2
Charlton Bullseye {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: An eleventh issue was set to be published before the series was cancelled. It would've featured a "Cap'n Catnip" story by Tim Fuller.
1981 - 1982 10
Charlton Classics {Comic Books} 1980 - 1981 9
Charlton Premiere {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The numbering was restarted with the second issue, #1.
1967 - 1968 5
Charlton Sport Library - Professional Football {Comic Books} 1970 - 1
Cheyenne Kid {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: See also Wild Frontier (Charlton, 1955 series) #7 (April 1957), first appearance of Cheyenne Kid
Public Domain
1957 - 1973 92 (93)
Cody of the Pony Express {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1956 3
Comedy Capers {Comic Books} 1986 - 5
The Comic Book Guide for the Artist / Writer / Letterer {Comic Books} 1973 - 1
Confidential Diary {Comic Books} 1962 - 1963 6
Cowboy Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 4
Cowboy Western {Comic Books} Public Domain 1954 - 1958 20
Cowboy Western Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1952 23
Cowboy Western Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1954 1
Cowboy Western Heroes {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1
Crazy, Man, Crazy {Comic Books} 1955 - 1956 2
Creepy Things {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Horror anthology series.
1975 - 1976 6
Crime and Justice {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue #22 does not exist.
Public Domain
1951 - 1955 25
Cynthia Doyle, Nurse in Love {Comic Books} 1962 - 1964 9 (11)
D-Day {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: No #3 published.
1963 - 1968 5 (6)
Danger {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 3
Danger and Adventure {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1957 6
Danny Blaze {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 2
David Cassidy {Comic Books} 1972 - 1973 14
Davy Crockett {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1957 8
Death Valley {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 3
Dino {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the Hanna-Barbera character.
1973 - 1977 20
Doctor Tom Brent, Young Intern {Comic Books} 1963 - 5 (8)
Don Winslow {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Covers for issues #71-72 titled "Don Winslow of the Navy"; all the indicias for this series read just "Don Winslow".
Public Domain
1955 - 4
Doomsday + 1 {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publishing hiatus between #6 (May 1976) and #7 (June 1978). See also The Charlton Bullseye (CPL/GANG Publications) #4 (March-April 1976) and #5 (July-September 1976).
1975 - 1979 12
Dr. Graves {Comic Books} 1985 - 1986 3
Drag N' Wheels {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Racing anthology.
1968 - 1973 30
Drag-Strip Hotrodders {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publishing hiatus from #1 (Summer 1963) to #2 (January 1965).
1963 - 1967 16
Dudley Do-Right {Comic Books} 1970 - 1971 7
E-Man {Comic Books} 1973 - 1975 10
Eh! {Comic Books} 1953 - 1954 7
Emergency {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the TV series.
1976 - 1977 4
Emergency {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the TV series.
1976 - 4
Emergency Doctor {Comic Books} 1963 - 1 (2)

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