Charlton Action Heroes

[Kap]

Has anyone written up the Charlton Action Heroes? Or do you know where they were written up by someone else?


And I mean the Charlton Action Heroes before D.C. fiddled with them to make them "better."

--Kap

[kahuna's bro]

i'd like to see those writeups too especially peter cannon...THUNDERBOLT now owned by the estate of pete morisi his creator

[TheQuestionMan]

Charlton Comics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Comics

List of Charlton Comics publications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_publications

Charlton Bullseye (fanzine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlto..._%28fanzine%29


Cheers


QM

[Kap]

Charlton Comics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Comics

List of Charlton Comics publications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_publications

Charlton Bullseye (fanzine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlto...seye_(fanzine)


Cheers


QM

Thanks for the links but I already have complete runs of all the Charlton Action Heroes except Sarge Steel and Judo Master. I'm just looking to see how others would construct these characters.

--Kap

[TheQuestionMan]

Pulp Hero, Golden Age Champions, and Dark Champions: the Animated Series would be your best resources for Carleton Action Heroes. Sarge Steel is a Super Spy with an Iron Fist and Judo Master is a Ultimate Martial Artist type character. There power levels will not be as high as your standard 400pt character, but their skills will be higher. Both are Trained Paranormal Superhumans. In the old venacular.

More later

QM

[Lucius]

I'd check Surbroo's Stuff.

Lucius Alexander

the palindromedary says that's stating the obvious

[Ninja-Bear]

There is a Judomaster on The Netbook of Superheroes, but it says that the comic is D.C.

[steriaca]

There is a Judomaster on The Netbook of Superheroes, but it says that the comic is D.C.

DC has a habbit of buying old comic book charaters from defunk comic book companys, then holding on to them for years before doing anything with them. Heck, it wasen't untill Crises on Infitent Earths that thay did ANYTHING with the Charlton Comic charaters thay bought. And it was years before thay used Captian Marvel (the Big Red Cheese one) and Plastic Man.

[RexMundi]

Heh, they (DC) ended up inventing Elongated Man, because they had forgotten that they owned Plastic Man at the time. Some of my favorite Characters in comics are Charlton Comics characters. Would be an interesting write up challenge.

For Teh Bunneh: 012_Atomic_Bunny_400px.jpg

And for Narf the Mouse: Atomic_Mouse_issue_1.jpg

~Rex

[steriaca]

Heh, they (DC) ended up inventing Elongated Man, because they had forgotten that they owned Plastic Man at the time.

I think it was more "Man...that charater is to wild for the CCA...but he has cool powers. Lets rename him and cast Dick Van Dike as him and see what we can see till we can get Plaze's personality watered down enougth for CCA aproval."

Question: Does anyone else miss the second Blue Beetal?

[RexMundi]

Heh, folks are still debating it. Only Julius Schwartz knows for sure and obviously he ain't talkin no more (shame to he was brilliant). Plas made it fairly well in the pre flashpoint DCU, even making Batman's List of "Never Wanting to Fight *insert name here*"....

I think the DCnU made a big mistake NOT bringing Ted Kord Back. On the other hand in order to do that they would have had to fix this crappy time span they have all this new stuff crammed into, and that's before you get into the problems of maybe having Dan Garrett around as well... I don't get why DC has this thing going where they constantly throw a new coat of paint on something that Always Fails, instead of running with what their fanbase is actually asking for.... Creators Pet Projects. I expect at least 12 more attempts to get enough people liking Jaime Reyes that he actually gets a steady fanbase going.....

So yeah I miss the BBII. Charlton rolled out some strong characters.

~Rex

[Escafarc]

DC's Pre-Crisis Plastic Man is one of those Continuity busters which can hurt the brain cells if you look too closely. They had to create Earth 12 for some of it.

[Zen Archer]

DC has a habbit of buying old comic book charaters from defunk comic book companys, then holding on to them for years before doing anything with them. Heck, it wasen't untill Crises on Infitent Earths that thay did ANYTHING with the Charlton Comic charaters thay bought.

The story goes - and this was repeated in a recent issue of Alter Ego magazine - that Paul Levitz arranged for the Charlton Heroes purchase as a gift to Dick Giordano. Giordano ended up being too busy to do anything with them, though, hence the delay.

[Kap]

Heh, they (DC) ended up inventing Elongated Man, because they had forgotten that they owned Plastic Man at the time. Some of my favorite Characters in comics are Charlton Comics characters. Would be an interesting write up challenge.

For Teh Bunneh: 012_Atomic_Bunny_400px.jpg

And for Narf the Mouse: Atomic_Mouse_issue_1.jpg

~Rex

I read that there is no record at the Library of Congress of a transfer of copyrights from Quality Comics to D.C., but rather a purchase of trademarks only. That may be the real reason D.C. developed Elongated Man and didn't bring publish Plastic Man until 1966, when Quality closed shop in 1956 and sold its titles to D.C. Plastic Man may in fact be in the public domain, but I wouldn't recommend trying to fight Warner Brothers' deep pockets. Blue Beetle (the original version) and Phantom Lady (original version) are in the public domain.

--Kap

[RexMundi]

Like i said, only Julius Schwartz will ever know and unless we hold a seance, we ain't getting the info out of him, heh. That dude was sheer brilliance in action though as far as what he did in the comic industry..... Wikipedia even jumped on the Elongated man/Plastic Man quote stuff, but then, Wikiaccurate ....

Charlton though has left a pretty good legacy with most of it's "decendants" still in play here and there at least on the super hero level. Some of the stuff that went public domain though did get put to use by Dynamite with their Project Super Powers books. Those are a fun read if folks haven't seen them yet.

~Rex