(June 1946)
Charlton,
1944 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Inc.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Becomes Jack in the Box (Charlton, 1946 series) with the next issue.
The Adventure of the Man with Two Faces
Yellowjacket / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Diane Carter; Mrs. Aubrey; Ed Aubrey
- Synopsis
- A social worker discovers her supposedly dead husband's signet ring on the hand of a beggar. It is her husband making a living out of begging.
Indexer Notes
Second last Golden Age appearance. One more appearance in the next issue re-titled Jack-in-the-Box.
Art similar to story in #9.
[no title indexed]
Diana the Huntress / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Diana the Huntress chases Argus the Many-Eyed to the ends of the earth in order to preserve fire upon earth!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Diana the Huntress; Zeus; Mercury; Prometheus; Argus
- Synopsis
- Argus the many-eyed has stolen the secret of fire from Prometheus and is up to put it out all over the Earth.
Indexer Notes
last appearance
The face of Diana on page 5 and Argus on page 6, and the many profiles with flat noses are all very much like the Battefiled-credited story in Super Mystery Comics (Ace Magazines, 1940 series) #7 and his Buck Jones stories in Master Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #6-10. Also Mystery Comics (Pines, 1944 series) #4. Very probably his work.
[no title indexed]
King of the Beasts / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Death in a lion pit -- or happiness with a lovely lady!
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Danny King; Russo; Tommy Randall; Diane Dana; John Randall
- Synopsis
- Danny saves a young man who attempts to drown himself because he is driven to think he is insane. All set up by his uncle to inherit his millions.
Indexer Notes
last appearance
DeLay can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations.
Gold! Gold! Gold!
Famous Tales of Terror / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- George Mandel (signed as gam)
- Pencils
- Alan Mandel (signed as gam)
- Inks
- Alan Mandel (signed as gam)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Josiah Haskins; Nat Haskins; Sue Haskins
- Synopsis
- Haskins is a hard and cruel man and have spent thirty years to get his bag of shining gold pieces, hiding them in the barn.
Indexer Notes
Same notes as in #9
[no title indexed]
Cap'n Grim / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alan Mandel (signed as AM)
- Inks
- Alan Mandel (signed as AM)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Since the first man ventured to sea in his crude boat, scraped out of a log, the fear of shipwreck has haunted sea faring men!
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Captain Grim; Jed Milton
- Synopsis
- Captain Grim tells a story of men purposely moving the buoys and markers so that ships would crack up on the rocks.
Indexer Notes
last appearance
Signature is hidden in the rocks to the right of the ship's prow.
[no title indexed]
Filipino Kid / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- Juan Martinez [Filipino Kid]; Kenoshi; Maria Manuel [Manila Maisie] (Filipino underground woman)
- Synopsis
- The Kid meets the mystey woman of the Filipino undeground and saves her from the Japanese.
Indexer Notes
last appearance
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Yellowjacket -
1.
The Adventure of the Man with Two Faces
Yellowjacket -
2.
["Diana the Huntress chases Argus the Many-Eyed to the ends of the earth in order to preserve fire upon earth!"]
Diana the Huntress -
3.
["Death in a lion pit -- or happiness with a lovely lady!"]
King of the Beasts -
4.
Gold! Gold! Gold!
Famous Tales of Terror -
5.
["Since the first man ventured to sea in his crude boat, scraped out of a log, the fear of shipwreck has haunted sea faring men!"]
Cap'n Grim -
6.
[no title indexed]
Filipino Kid
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
- Tom Zsolt
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