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jfglade:
 Your scans of those Charlton issues look better than the books themselves ever did; Charlton had notoriously poor printing, or at least did in the sixted and, especially, the seventies.  I've enjoyed both of the Charlton books you've added.

Morrismoss:
I agree with the fact that the Charlton printing are often crappy and seriously out of focus.
especially as you said some titles from the  60 and 70's.
But the printing of the few Charlton I have from 1959 to 1964 seams pretty decent
(except for some color displacement and most of the covers out of focus, the page are ok.
I can assure you that the scans I did here are somehow close to the original ... I'm not a  magician:)
I scanned them with no particular effect except putting the clearness to best on epson settings.
I used FastStone image viewer tool to crop and resize and didn't change the contrast or color.

I always had the feeling that Charlton was a cheap editor (on the contrary of Dell or Gold Key with whom
it shares a lot of titles) not only for its printing but also for the drawing quality.
When I look at the drawings I have the odd feeling that It was done fast in big amount and I can
visualize an artist sweating at his table to keep up the scheddule.
It's the kind of editor who has one strategy to survive: fload the market at all cost.
I hope the artists had the compensation to make a good living out of it.

MM

John C:
Oh, I don't know, MM.  I'd put most of Western's (the group behind Dell and Gold Key) superhero books side by side with the most awkward of Charlton.  Heck, Tony Tallarico did the art for most of the horror movie hero.  Case in point, one of my favorite articles on comics...

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics122.html

Seriously, about the only difference in quality between this and a typical issue of Son of Vulcan, say, is Charlton's cereal box printing press and mechanical lettering, no?

(Disclaimer:  I have a soft spot in my heart for crap like this, down to "A. Machine"'s lettering.  So I make this comparison with affection.)

Morrismoss:
ahahah thank for the link John you made my day.

"But enough of the formalities your training is to begin now!"
 ... you don't know if he looks at his watch or if he puts a giant hand on wolf dude's shoulder!
I see it's the same guys who did the Dracula at Dell ... piece of modern art too.

You're sure right about this, the content is generaly at the same level .As I said, it's just a feeling.
The very notable difference are the beautiful painted front covers at gold key.

Lettering machine" was my nightmare when I was a kid, It was hard to read. It was the speciality of
publishers named Artima/Aredit who where reprinting Marvel material such as Hulk or Conan with the mention ... "For Adult only".

Again thanks for the "Stupid comic" website, I'll spend the rest of the month on it:)

John C:

--- Quote from: Morrismoss on March 17, 2011, 07:08:36 PM ---Again thanks for the "Stupid comic" website, I'll spend the rest of the month on it:)

--- End quote ---

Yeah, that's what happened to me.  Thank goodness I was between jobs at the time...

(And yes, that was much more an excuse to giggle at the absurd Dell heroes than picking a fight.)

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