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Post by mh on Nov 8, 2013 13:31:16 GMT -6
in my slapdash, crappy, but fascinating (in it's own way) comic collection i have a midnight tales #16!
now this is a damn comic book! (note the funny 'night gallery-esque' cover. damn, the 70's were great) the book features the beautiful arachne (imagine a cross between betty page and angelina jolie, but with huge knockers) and her uncle cyrus, professor coffin: the midnight philosopher
the really great article I found compares him to andy warhol! it was written/drawn by wayne howard. I love the art! wayne was 'wally wood-ing' his arse off. like wood but grimier. sort of like what you'd expect if wally wood was chained to a desk in a Pilipino sweat shop. but perfect for the book. every issue has "created by wayne howard" right there on the cover! apparently that was a big deal in 1976. from what I've read, they'd often shove some old reprints in there, but not in the issue I have. it's 100% wayne howard
swords-and-veeblefetzers.blogspot.com/2010/03/midnight-tales-time-machine.html
midnight tales stery from #3
diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2012/06/boys-from-derby-malfunction-by-cuti-and.html
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Post by Babu Baboon on Nov 8, 2013 14:50:51 GMT -6
That art is fantastic!
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Post by mh on Nov 8, 2013 22:58:31 GMT -6
yeah, it's great! E-Man and this are probably the best things charlton ever did. check out this
"double-spread poster" (2 separate pics) I found, that they put in issue 5. yow! professor coffin's
fetching niece arachne was nudging 1970's youths towards puberty!
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Post by Doc Quantum on Nov 9, 2013 1:18:11 GMT -6
There's an interesting bio on Wayne Howard on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_HowardIt's too bad his career kind of fizzled out by the early '80s. He was very talented. |
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Post by mh on Nov 25, 2013 1:08:33 GMT -6
in my collection, I've found a speed buggy #1!! here's a later one:
 i remember seeing the cartoon a little when the cartoon channel was still doing saturday morning flashback. mel mblanc, of course, did the car's voice. the comic art is apparently by a guy named bill williams who did a lot of this type of work for charlton. the internal artwork isn't bad. here's a CBR post about 'speed buggy'. carrot man creator scott shaw weighed in (har!) a little and said SB was better done than a lot of charlton's hanna/barbera stuff and that williams rushed these, but it was still solid work
forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?215831-Speed-Buggy-No-Really-I-m-serious!!&s=521155c54d81dbf775a499b13c5c1167
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Post by mh on Nov 27, 2013 14:23:33 GMT -6
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Post by mh on Jan 18, 2014 16:01:19 GMT -6
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jan 29, 2014 1:18:27 GMT -6
I thought I'd mention this here, since there are some Charlton fans on this board. Several comics professionals and fans have grouped together to create a tribute magazine called The Charlton Arrow. The first issue will be released in March. It contains stories and artwork by John Byrne, Paul Kupperberg, Joe Staton, and several others whose names I'm not as familiar with. You can see a preview here: morttodd.com/charlton.html If you're on Facebook, there's a popular group for discussing the magazine in specific and Charlton in general: www.facebook.com/groups/thecharltonarrow/I'm ordering it ahead of time to save on the cost. If you're interested, I'd highly recommend it. Details are at the first link above. |
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jan 29, 2014 1:21:23 GMT -6
BTW, all the characters in The Charlton Arrow are in the public domain, so you won't see any of the action-heroes like Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, the Question, etc., that Charlton sold to DC in the '80s, or E-Man, which is creator-owned. But Charlton had tons of other characters to choose from over the years.
They're also releasing a trading card set, if that interests you.
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Post by mh on Jan 29, 2014 11:45:01 GMT -6
thanks doc, this sounds terific! i read up on it a little. looks like they're going about it the right way -- accepting the inherent goofiness of the characters and just tweaking them a little, unlike the recent atlas comics revival which tried to make all the old atlas characters grim avengers. this should be great! I'm gonna talk to my local comics guy (yes, i have recently acquired a comics guy) and make sure he's getting it! yeah, like you said, paul kupperberg, john byrne and joe staton. holy crap! and I've seen batton lash's name come up as a big devotee of ditko, and charlton horror comics. what an lovely homage this should be!
charltonlibrary.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-charlton-arrow-trading-cards-are.html
(charlton arrow trading cards)
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Post by mh on Jan 29, 2014 12:31:45 GMT -6
i never heard of "mr. mixup" (looks like a cross between spiderman & the creeper!) or mr. muscles. but found a mister muscles comic online where he rehabilitates a criminal who tries to kill him & 'muscle boy'. by making him work out until he has muscles! because nobody with a healthy physique can have an unhealthy mind! that why convicts all come out healthy & reformed from prison i guess
scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3604041.html
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jan 29, 2014 12:36:14 GMT -6
Mr. Muscles is basically Charles Atlas with a costume.
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Post by mh on Jan 29, 2014 20:05:49 GMT -6
Mr. Muscles is basically Charles Atlas with a costume. yeah.  they should have just made him charles atlas in the comic
(here ladies, have two tickets to the gun show!!!) 
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 29, 2014 20:30:43 GMT -6
LOL. Mr Muscles remindsme of Flex Mentallo.
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jan 31, 2014 12:55:03 GMT -6
FUN FACT: Jerry Siegel, who created Superman with Joe Shuster, was a co-creator of Mr. Muscles. Siegel didn't really have much success in creating characters later on in his career. Superman was a hit, of course, and the Spectre, the Star-Spangled Kid & Stripesy, and Robotman were also somewhat popular in their time, as were Doctor Occult and Slam Bradley earlier, but Funnyman, Mr. Muscles, and Nature Boy (also from Charlton) had fairly short-lived lifespans on the comic racks. I really enjoyed Siegel's Legion of Super-Heroes stories, though. He has a distinctive storytelling style that you can recognize.
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they should have just made him charles atlas in the comic