Abbott & Costello (Charlton) #01-#22 (1968 – 1971) [Charlton Comics Collection] Complete Series / Abbott and Costello (St. John) #01- #40 (1948-1956) Missing #16, #19, #23-#27 & #38. The Charlton Comics Story Part 01 - [Charlton Comics Collection ]

Abbott & Costello (Charlton - St. John)

Publisher: Charlton

Publication Dates: February 1968 – August 1971

Number of Issues Published: 22 (#1 – #22)

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Size

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

Pages: 36      Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly

Notes

Based on the Hanna-Barbera versions of the characters.

Indicia title is "Abbott & Costello" in issue #2.

Authors: 

Script:

Steve Skeates, Denny O'Neil [as Sergius O'Shaughnessy],

Pencils:

Henry Scarpelli, Richard "Grass" Green,

Inks:

Henry Scarpelli, Richard "Grass" Green,

Colors:

?

Letters:

Charlotte Jetter, Richard "Grass" Green, Ray Burzon ?,

Publisher: St. John

Publication Dates: February 1948 – September 1956

Number of Issues Published: 40 (#1 – #40)

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.

Paper Stock: Glossy Cover, Newsprint Interior

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Pages: 36      Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly

Notes

Reprinted (#1-3?) as Abbott & Costello (1948 series)

Publication Services Limited.

Authors:

Script

John Graham (credited)

Pencils

Lily Renée [as Lilly Renée] (credited); Eric Peters (credited)

Inks

Lily Renée [as Lilly Renée] (credited); Eric Peters (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Based on the Hanna-Barbera versions of the characters.

Information thanks to the Grand Comic Database

William “Bud” Abbott and Lou Costello were an American comedy duo whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and early 1950s. Their patter routine “Who’s on First?” is considered one of the greatest comedy routines of all time and set the framework for many of their best-known comedy bits.

Bud Abbott (1895–1974) was a veteran burlesque entertainer from a show business family. He worked at Coney Island and ran his own burlesque touring companies. At first he worked as a straight man to his wife Betty, then with veteran burlesque comedians like Harry Steppe and Harry Evanson. When he met his future partner in comedy, Abbott was performing in Minsky’s Burlesque shows.Bud had been working at least a decade prior to meeting Lou Costello.

Lou Costello (1906–1959) had been a burlesque comic since 1930 after failing to break into movie acting and working as a stunt double and film extra. He appears briefly in the 1927 Laurel and Hardy silent two-reeler, The Battle of the Century, seated at ringside during Stan’s ill-fated boxing match. As a teenager, Costello had been an amateur boxer in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey. Lou Costello was introduced to burlesque through the Ann Corio Show. He was a “dancing juvenile,” who came out before the top banana and warmed up the audience – only he would get the laughs.

The two men first worked together in 1935 at the Eltinge Burlesque Theater on 42nd Street—now the lobby of the AMC Empire movie complex in New York City. This first performance occurred due to Costello’s regular partner being ill. When AMC moved the old theater 168 ft (51 m) west on 42nd Street to its current location, giant balloons of Abbott and Costello were rigged to appear to pull it.

Other performers in the show, including Abbott’s wife Betty, advised a permanent pairing. The duo built an act by refining and reworking numerous burlesque sketches into the long-familiar presence of Abbott as the devious straight man and Costello as the stumbling, dimwitted laugh-getter.

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Cover nº 40 St. John

The Charlton Comics Story  Part 01

Charlton Comics was an American comic book publishing company that existed from 1945 to 1986, having begun under a different name (T.W.O. Charles Company) in 1944. It was based in Derby, Connecticut. The comic-book line was a division of Charlton Publications, which published magazines (most notably song-lyric magazines), puzzle books and, briefly, books (under the Monarch and Gold Star imprints). It had its own distribution company (Capital Distribution).

Charlton Comics published a wide variety of genres, including crime, science fiction, Western, horror, war and romance comics, as well as funny animal and superhero titles. The company was known for its low-budget practices, often using unpublished material acquired from defunct companies and paying comics creators among the lowest rates in the industry. Charlton Comics were also the last of the American comics to raise their price from ten cents to 12 cents in 1962.

It was unique among comic book companies in that it controlled all areas of publishing—from editorial to printing to distribution—rather than working with outside printers and distributors as did most other publishers. It did so under one roof at its Derby headquarters.

1958 aerial shot of The Charlton Building from the July, '58 issue of Newsdealer.
The caption states, "This huge publishing-printing-distributing organization occupies
a modern 71/2-acre plant in central Connecticut. Courtesy of Bob Beerbohm

The company was formed by John Santangelo, Sr. and Ed Levy in 1940 as T.W.O. Charles Company, named after the co-founders' two sons, both named Charles, and became 

Charlton Publications in 1945. (To be continued...)

More information about Charlton Comics

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Charlton_Comics

http://www.powerofcomics.com/the-charlton-comics-story

http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/09empire.html

https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/the-charlton-comics-mystique-part-1/

http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=812

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=264

 Links ⇲⇲
 Abbott and Costello,  Charlton  

Numbers 03, 04, 13, 14, 15 & 18  Courtesy of Jens Terje

Abbott and Costello,  St. John

Numbers 16, 19, 23-27 and 38 are still missing

https://mega.nz/folder/TP4w2STS#OvLmW27DLBNEVPVDshXIjQ