(March 1969)
Charlton,
1967 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Press Inc.
- Brand
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Charlton Comics
- Editing
- Sal Gentile (Managing Editor)
The 2nd Age of Monsters
comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- B-1604
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dr Jim Braithard; Dr Manzeo; Anne, Jim's wife; police lieutenant; various native henchmen
- Synopsis
- Dr Manzeo discovers that living creatures can be made into giants by feeding them a "prehistoric" variety of swamp moss. He is stopped by a giant-sized Jim who forces him to turn over the antidote to restore all of Manzeo's experimental subjects (and Jim himself) to normal size.
La Bruja Del Brujamo
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Albert Powell; Colonel Juan Mendoza; The Witch; Dr Frederico Cabrino; John Campbell
- Synopsis
- A witch who had healed a young Albert Powell places a curse on Albert's wife for neglecting to support her in her later years. After it has all been explained as a misunderstanding, Albert's wife is cured. Subsequently the man who has been embezzling the support money confesses.
The Money Machine
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Pat Boyette ?; Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Pat Boyette (signed)
- Inks
- Pat Boyette (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Pat Boyette
- Job Number
- B-1746
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Murray Spence; Mr Blurp; unnamed bartender; Humphrey Stout; the ghost of Leon Frammis
- Synopsis
- Murray Spence attempts to sell a machine that he claims will transform $10 bills into fifties. He foolishly plies his con from the very room where magician and spiritualist Leon Frammis lived his last days. Frammis punishes Spence by exposing him as a fraud and finally taking over his body.
- Reprints
-
in Ghostly Tales (Charlton, 1966 series) #153 (February 1982)
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Paradise Acres
Jason Jaxon / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1744
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Jefferson Lincoln Rimmon III [Bubi]; Jason Jaxon; George
- Synopsis
- Real estate developer Jason Jaxon intends to fill in Bubi's swamp and build a tract of homes. However he is defeated by Bubi who calls upon his friends, the creatures of the swamp, to thwart Jaxon's plans.
- Reprints
-
in Planet Series (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #v2#1 ([April 1979] ?) - in Ghostly Tales (Charlton, 1966 series) #153 (February 1982)
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Indexer Notes
Bubi seems to be inspired by the title character of the Irvin S Cobb short story "Fishhead", a freakish fish-man who is one with his wetland environment and whose murder at the hands of "fever-ridden squatters" is avenged by the denizens of the swamp.
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Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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1.
The 2nd Age of Monsters
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2.
La Bruja Del Brujamo
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3.
The Money Machine
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4.
Paradise Acres
Jason Jaxon
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Bill Devine
- Kenneth English
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ramon Schenk
- Michael Tanigawa
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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