(May 1959)
Charlton,
1956 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Pat Masulli
The Test of Character
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- 3392
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Horace Whickle I shall give you the gift of complete power over the affairs of men!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Horace Whickle; Vision; Mr Dunston (Horace's boss)
- Synopsis
- Horace Whickle has worked as a bookkeeper for 22 years. Dunston calls Horace into his office and tells him to work late to find a wrong figure in an account. Later at home a Vision appears to Horace and tells him he has the power to control men and to use it for good. Horace quickly makes Dunston bankrupt and then takes over every company in the country. The Vision appears again and tells him he has become vain and to do good. Horace becomes the most powerful man in the world and declares himself Emperor of the World. Then the alarm clock wakes him up and he goes in to work as normal.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Molno pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Charles Nicholas.
The Antique Collectors
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 4829
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Fantastic Tales (Thorpe & Porter, 1963 series) #20 - in Out of This World (Thorpe & Porter, 1961 ? series) #5
- in Out of This World (Alan Class, 1963 series) #3
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in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1904 (1966) which is reprinted - in Hip Comics (Windmill Comics, 2009 series) #19186 ([september] 2015)
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in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966) - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #205 ([circa 1982 - 1983]) [original title: The Antique Collectors]
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #246 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
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Return of the Pied Piper
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 4008
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Baker pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Jack Sparling.
Recorderex's Revolt
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Out of This World (Thorpe & Porter, 1961 ? series) #5
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #55, #173 ([circa 1977 - 1978])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Test of Character
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2.
The Antique Collectors
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3.
Return of the Pied Piper
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4.
Recorderex's Revolt
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5.
The Tenants at 33 Oak Street
This issue was modified by, among others
- Doug Brain
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Banks S. Robinson
- Paul Robinson
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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