Tuesday, January 03, 2006

A years worth of GHOSTLY TALES!

This then, is probably Charlton at their peak. Killer issues every one. Ditko, Sutton (...just look at those covers!), the usual gang of mavericks (PAM, Boyette, Cuti, Gill), plus there's even a story with layouts by Wally Wood! i'm NOT going to give any plots away, since the stories are almost all quite exceptional, and deserved to be experienced by you - "unspoiled"!
My point with this post is thus - if Charlton was such a shoddy, low-rent, "nobody-gives-a-damn" operation... how then are these 6 issues consistantly good? i wish 6 issues of any DC horror line title from the same period had produced an equal level of both quality and innovation. Somebody REALLY needs to (re)write the history of "Horror Comics in the Silver Age" to skew some of the attention away from the "Big 2"... since it seems to me that Warren, Charlton, Skywald and Eerie had A LOT MORE to do with it than contemporary fandom would care to admit! Ah well... you know how it goes.... the survivors get to write the history.......
hmmmmmm, now wait a minute.......we'll just have to see what the ol' datajunkie has to say about that...... (fade in the sound of gears turning in hyper dave's brainbox)
what do you guys think? am i ready to start writin' that book?
.....maybe now IS the time?... i mean if not me, who?... and if not now, when?

Ghostly Tales #105 or here too!



Ghostly Tales #106 or here too!


Ghostly Tales #107 or here too!



Ghostly Tales #108 or here too!


Ghostly Tales # or here too!


Ghostly Tales #110 or here too!
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