(February 1958)
Charlton,
1956 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication [corner triangle]
- Editing
- Pat Masulli (Executive Editor)
The Angry Things
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-2716
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Toni Corso learns the villa he just purchased is inhabited by angry things created by accumulated wickedness.
- Reprints
-
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #78 -
in Eureka Terror (Sobrenatural) (Editora Vecchi, 1979 series) #5 - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17, #133 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
-
in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #4 - Impossible Tales (November 2013) which is reprinted -
in Steve Ditko - Les archives des années 50 (Neofelis, 2017 series) #[1] - Histoires improbables [1957/1958] (octobre 2017) - in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #32 (2017)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
-
This Was an Unexplored World
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- S-1337
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- A brief writeup on Alaska.
- Reprints
And Life Goes On
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-2906
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A scientist and his son debate reincarnation.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17, #133 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #192 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
-
The Garden of Time
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Bill Molno
- Inks
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed as RAM)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S-2907
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A listless man enters an old garden and is transported back to the medieval ages. There he falls in love with a woman. After he returns to the modern world he falls in love with her descendant.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Molno pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rocco Mastroserio. Saltarella thinks the penciller is Mastroserio and that the presence of only one signature proves it.
The Watchers
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-3015
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A talking parakeet helps an impoverished elderly couple.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #78
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #221 ([circa 1985 - 1986])
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
-
Freight Car Prisoner
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Synopsis
- A teenager gets trapped in a freight train boxcar for three days. After he's freed, he decides to change his life.
- Reprints
Element X
comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- S-289
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Space ranger Blast captures the evil Torro using "Element X"; "Courage and fortitude and moral conviction".
- Reprints
The Talking Dog
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S946
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- When a man is contemplating divorcing his wife, he decides to visit his old family home. There he's greeted by his long dead pet dog "Toby" who convinces him to stay with his wife.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17, #133 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #192 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
Possible Fraccio pencils and Trapani inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rocco Mastroserio on pencils.
Madman at Large
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-2845
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A driver picks up a hitchhiker in the rain. When he hears on the radio about an escaped madman, he becomes paranoid and tries to flee. It turns out the driver was the escaped madman all along.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17, #133 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #192 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
Molno pencils per Nick Caputo.
The Cheapest Steak in Nome
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S1554
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- In 1892 in a small mining town in Alaska, people wonder where Dutch Kessler has been getting the meat for his delicious steaks from. It turns out he's been getting it from a prehistoric Brontosaurus frozen in ice.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #78
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17
- in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #2 - Unexplored Worlds (November 2010)
- in Ditko's Shorts (IDW, 2014 series) (November 2014)
- in Konga (Robin Snyder and Steve Ditko, 2018 series) #25 (Summer 2018)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
-
Simba
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Synopsis
- In Africa, a scrawny American professor saves some natives by shooting and killing the huge man eating lion "Simba". They make him their King.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #78
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #221 ([circa 1985 - 1986])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #192 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
-
Second Hand
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-2844
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- When people put on a mysterious coat, they get teleported into a parallel universe and get replaced by versions of themselves from that other universe.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #78
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #17
- in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #5 - Dripping with Fear (March 2015)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
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The King of Planetoid X
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S1282
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Members from planets all around the galaxy wonder how the King of "Planetoid X" is able to run a peaceful planet that never has any wars. It turns out that the people he rules over are obedient robots.
- Reprints
- in Out of This World (Alan Class, 1963 series) #10
- in Space War (Charlton, 1959 series) #30 (June 1978)
- in Out of This World (Alan Class, 1981 ? series) #5 ([circa 1981 - 1982])
- in Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination, 2002 series) #[1] (2002)
- in Steve Ditko: Space Wars (Vanguard Productions, 2005 series) (February 2005)
- in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #2 - Unexplored Worlds (November 2010)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #31 (2016)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
- in Out of This World (Robin Snyder and Steve Ditko, 2015 series) #28 (2019)
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Angry Things
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2.
This Was an Unexplored World
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3.
And Life Goes On
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4.
The Garden of Time
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5.
The Watchers
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6.
Freight Car Prisoner
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7.
Element X
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8.
The Talking Dog
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9.
Madman at Large
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10.
The Cheapest Steak in Nome
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11.
Simba
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12.
Second Hand
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13.
The King of Planetoid X
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Kenneth English
- Gary Henderson
- Nuno Miranda
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
- Mike White
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