(November 1944)
Charlton,
1944 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Some corrected story information from Jim Ludwig (February 2005). No indicia present.
[no title indexed]
Yellowjacket; Diana the Huntress / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ken Battefield
- Inks
- Ken Battefield
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Diana the Huntress
Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits the art to Battefield.
The insert artwork of Diana the Huntress is taken from the final panel of her story in Yellowjacket #1, art by Gus Schrotter.
The Curse of the Broken Claw
Yellowjacket / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ken Battefield
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Major Vinson; Andy Douglas; Doc Krause; Bramm
- Synopsis
- At a military hospital some patients die as a doctor injects them with crab serum to grow new limbs.
Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Battefield on pencils.
[no title indexed]
Diana the Huntress / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Greece, land of culture and courage, is turned into a scene of starvation and death by the vengeful Nazis.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; superhero; war
- Characters
- Diana the Huntress; Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia
- Synopsis
- Diana and gods from Mt. Olympus descend in wrath on a Nazi convoy approaching Greece.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
The figures and female faces match well Morey's later signed story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #104. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. also credits Morey with the art.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Famous Tales of Terror / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gus Schrotter
- Inks
- Gus Schrotter ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Adapted from a story by Edgar Allan Poe. A man sentenced by the Inquisition to a horrible death in a dark pit, bound and waiting for a swinging, descending pendulum to cut him in half but is saved by rats gnawing on his straps.
Indexer Notes
The art is very similar to his Diana the Huntress stories and his signed story in Camera Comics (US Camera, 1944 series) #6. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits him only on pencils.
[no title indexed]
Debunker / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The flying fox is not a fox... but a large bat
- Genre
- non-fiction
[no title indexed]
King of the Beasts / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harold DeLay (as Harold De Lay)
- Inks
- Harold DeLay (as Harold De Lay)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can you solve these clues?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Danny King; Zelda; Doris; Thurman; Jerry Thimble; Roscoe; Ganery; Sahara (lion)
- Synopsis
- Two circus artista are killed, and Danny uses the lion to track the murderer.
Indexer Notes
DeLay can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations.
[no title indexed]
Harbor Lights / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rudy Palais
- Inks
- Rudy Palais
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is a story about Gunner Thompson...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Gunner Thompson
- Synopsis
- A killer meets a black garbed figure on the road who predicts his death, and shortly after he is drafted into the army where he meets his end.
Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Palais on the art.
[no title indexed]
Bee Lines / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- W. Carroll ?
- Pencils
- W. Carroll (signed)
- Inks
- W. Carroll (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gregg has been doing that ever since he heard a rumor that Congress repealed the law of gravity!
- Genre
- humor; war
- Characters
- Simple Suzie
- Synopsis
- 5 gag panels
[no title indexed]
Filipino Kid / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Gregg
- Inks
- George Gregg
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Brutally oppressed beneath the heel of the conqueror's boot, our Filipino fellow-citizen reaps ruthless revenge --
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Juan Martinez [Filipino Kid]; Captain Oshikama
- Synopsis
- Armed with only with a bolo knife, the Filipino Kid leads his marauders against the murder master of Manila, Captain Oshikama.
Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Gregg with this art.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Yellowjacket; Diana the Huntress -
1.
The Curse of the Broken Claw
Yellowjacket -
2.
["Greece, land of culture and courage, is turned into a scene of starvation and death by the vengeful Nazis."]
Diana the Huntress -
3.
Killer
-
4.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Famous Tales of Terror -
5.
["The flying fox is not a fox... but a large bat"]
Debunker -
6.
["Can you solve these clues?"]
King of the Beasts -
7.
["This is a story about Gunner Thompson..."]
Harbor Lights -
8.
["Gregg has been doing that ever since he heard a rumor that Congress repealed the law of gravity!"]
Bee Lines -
9.
["Brutally oppressed beneath the heel of the conqueror's boot, our Filipino fellow-citizen reaps ruthless revenge --"]
Filipino Kid
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