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| | The Charlton Empire - Comic Book Artist #9 - TwoMorrows Publishing |
 | | The comics output settled down to pretty standard Comics Code-approved fare of genre material—romance, war, westerns, kiddie, science-fiction, "Unusual Tales," though super-heroes were represented by a lone entry, the four-issue revival of Blue Beetle in 1955. |
 | | The primary writer of virtually all the Charlton books was Joe Gill, ever-present at his desk with typewriter, who is arguably the most prolific writer in the history of comics, producing as much as 100 pages in scripts a week, stories often as pedestrian as the artwork. |
 | | Ford, former Frank McLaughlin apprentice, attempted a revival of the line in 1986, but the dog was dead and, by 1988, the bones were picked dry as Roger Broughton, a Canadian publisher, acquired nearly 5000 pages of original art from 40 different Charlton titles, some it eventually appearing under Broughton's imprint, ACG Comics. |
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