| Comments |
| |
| One of the most outrageous covers I've seen (and the premise is repeated in the interior story with a close-up of the severed tongues!). The interior story also has implied nudity.
Too bad this comic suffers from a Charlton Curse (there were many of them) -- terrible color registration in the printing. |
|
| Don't you just want to run out and mail your order for "The Complete Barbershop Joke Book"? For stag-minded males...humor sharp as a razor's edge! |
|
| Golly gee! I had no idea Charlton had ever published anything so degrading! All of a sudden I have to re-think my opinion of them! |
|
| This book looks like a Charlton Comic - and the creators are all Charlton Alumni, but is it?
It has no Charlton Logo on the cover and page #3 says,
'published by Capitol Stories, the editorial Office and Office of publication. Wait for it. The addesss given is
Charlton Bldg. Derby, Conn.
So was Charlton trying to start another company to outdo EC comics?
Can anybody throw some light oin this? |
|
| | |
| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | March 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| |
| Cover | Round-Trip Ticket! |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Morales (signed) | Inks: Lou Morales (signed) | Letters: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Sherrin Kimberly; unnamed host |
| |
| Comic Story | The Dead End Ghost (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A murdered criminal gets revenge on his killer. |
| Credits | Letters: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Horror-suspense | Characters: Steve Merwin; Trig; Jerry Greer |
| Notes | Inside front cover in black and white. |
| |
| Comic Story | Round-Trip Ticket! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A bus breaks down and seven passengers must spend the night in a home where the gracious host knows each of their evil past. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Morales (signed) | Inks: Dennis Laugen (signed) | Letters: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Ralph Coyne; Corinth Seely; Waller Drum; Emma Kratt; Carlyle Kratt; Nancy Gregg; Sherrin Kimberly; bus driver; gracious host; Barton; Ted; Big Pete; George; two waitresses |
| Notes | Classic severed tongues horror story. |
| |
| Comic Story | The End of a Perfect Crime (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A dieing fathers wants his son to get revenge on the relative that stole his fortune. |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Giordano (signed) | Inks: Al Fago (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Jeremiah Nalton; Rick Nalton; Stewart North; George Gould; Marcia Adams |
| |
| Comic Story | One Body Too Many (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A murderer has trouble disposing of the body. |
| Credits | Letters: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Seth Chalmers; Roy Mercer; Joe Brady |
| |
| Text Story | The Punchboard Mystery (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A police detective has a suspect for the murder of a shopkeeper, but something doesn't add up. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Julia Brannan; Detective John Anthony; Mike Deering; Slim Shoastak |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| |
| Comic Story | Explosive! (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A woman's plot to kill her husband goes off with a bang. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Morales (signed) | Inks: Al Fago (signed) | Letters: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Nick; Millie; Chuck; Joe |
| |
| Comic Story | Down to the Last T (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Slinky Barlow looks to make a big score from a bookie. |
| Credits | Pencils: Collier (signed) | Inks: Collier (signed) | Letters: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Slinky Barlow; Auntie Logan; Weeper Sloane; Tony |
| |
| Comic Story | Time Out of Mind! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A getaway driver keeps getting knocked out and doesn't know if he killed a man or just dreamed it. |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Moskowitz? | Letters: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Jimmy Wharton; Rudy Carthage; Lt. Ray Boland; Claire Darcy; Mickey (bartender); Detective Morton; Hinkey Shafter; landlady; sheriff; landlady's son |
| Notes | Possible Moskowitz pencils per Nick Caputo, October 2016. |
| |
| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | For the previous title Lawbreakers Comics. Submitted by Burton N. Levey on September 5, 1952. Printed on inside back cover. |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
