(April 1956)

Charlton, 1955 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Charlton Comics Group
Brand
Corner Triangle CDC
Editing
Al Fago (credited) (editor); Burton Levey (credited) (editor, managing editor); Ed Levy (credited as Edward Levy) (publisher); John Santangelo (credited) (business manager)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Nyoka, the Jungle Girl / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Maurice Whitman (signed as Maurice Whitman)
Inks
Maurice Whitman (signed as Maurice Whitman)
Colors
?

Genre
jungle

Nyoka the Jungle Girl and the Vanishing Warriors Chapter I War in the Jungles (Table of Contents: 1)

Nyoka, the Jungle Girl / comic story / 5.9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
Charlotte Jetter

Genre
jungle
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Although this is a reprint from Fawcett's Nyoka #59, a close reading shows the changes that have been made to appease Comics Code Authority censors. Interestingly, in this part, almost all of the changes are changes to text and not to illustrations, which is somewhat unusual. For example, on page one, the angry natives are condemning Nyoka to death with the words, "She must pay the supreme penalty! When death dance end--she die!" The second sentence is missing in the Charlton version. On page three, when natives are (again!) attacking poor Nyoka, she says in the Fawcett original, "(Ulps) These spears and poison darts are whizzing all around me! One of them is bound to hit me!" In the Charlton reprint this becomes, ""They're all around me! One of them is bound to hit me!" The most egregious example of editing comes later on the same page when a lucky knife throw severs the vine on which Nyoka is swinging away to safety, as she cries (Fawcett original): "Oh, oh! That spear is heading straight for my head!" This turns into (and the dotted lines are there in the Charlton word balloon): "Oh, oh! That spear is heading straight for me _ _ _"

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

statement of ownership / 0.1 page (report information)

Script
Burton Levey (credited as Burton N. Levey) (editor)
Letters
typeset

Nyoka the Jungle Girl and the Vanishing Warriors Chapter II Up a Tree (Table of Contents: 3)

Nyoka, the Jungle Girl / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
jungle
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Although this is a reprint from Fawcett's Nyoka #59, a close reading shows the changes that have been made to appease Comics Code Authority censors. While in the first part of the story most of the changes were textual, not visual, in this part that process becomes more complicated. On the splash panel Nyoka is moving through the jungle, and in the Fawcett original we see a dark-toned arm and hand coming out of the bushes about to clomp her on the head. The caption reads, "Little does Nyoka realize, as she searches for the Nopas, that a hand, holding a club, has come up from the brush behind her and is ready to come smashing down on her head!" In the Charlton reprint the arm and hand now have a European skin-tone (which may simply have been a color separation error) and are NOT holding a club. The caption now reads, "Little does Nyoka realize, as she searches for the Nopas, that a sinister hand has silently come up from the brush behind her!" In the following Fawcett scene the club knocks her unconscious as it slams into her head; in the Charlton version she is apparently knocked out by the a fist lightly brushing her shoulder. Similar changes ensue throughout.

Knowing Nature's Knowledge (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
jungle

Nyoka the Jungle Girl and the Vanishing Warriors Chapter III The Watery Graves (Table of Contents: 5)

Nyoka, the Jungle Girl / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
jungle
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Although reprinted from the Fawcett Nyoka #59, significant changes have been made to this story to appease the Comics Code Authority censors, both in text and illustrations. Two examples from page one suffice to make the point. In the Fawcett version the angry natives are saying, "Yes, we kill them and run off with treasure," which in the Charlton version becomes, "Yes! Then we run off with treasure!" Two panels later (Fawcett) the two natives leap out of the trees, slamming both Nyoka and her two male companions savagely to the ground, knocking them out so that the three can be carried limply off in the next scene. In the Charlton version, however, Nyoka has been converted into the guy, and one of the guys has been omitted from the panel, because apparently you could not do that much physical violence to the heroine. Nonetheless, Nyoka (who was not slammed to the ground, therefore) is still in an unconscious heap on the ground with the other two, and the story drives relentlessly on.

The Platypus (Table of Contents: 6)

Freaks of Nature! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Maurice Whitman
Inks
Maurice Whitman
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction; animal
Reprints

Nitro Run (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill ?
Pencils
Bill Molno
Inks
Sal Trapani ?
Colors
?
Letters
Jon D'Agostino

Job Number
S402
Genre
adventure
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Nyoka, the Jungle Girl
  2. 1. Nyoka the Jungle Girl and the Vanishing Warriors Chapter I War in the Jungles
    Nyoka, the Jungle Girl
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
  4. 3. Nyoka the Jungle Girl and the Vanishing Warriors Chapter II Up a Tree
    Nyoka, the Jungle Girl
  5. 4. Knowing Nature's Knowledge
  6. 5. Nyoka the Jungle Girl and the Vanishing Warriors Chapter III The Watery Graves
    Nyoka, the Jungle Girl
  7. 6. The Platypus
    Freaks of Nature!
  8. 7. Nitro Run
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Steve Newton
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Len Wolinsky