Charlton Arrow Week! The Grooviest Covers of All Time--featuring The Charlton Horror-Hosts

 Greetings, Groove-ophiles! We're winding up our week-long salute to The Charlton Arrow, and Ol' Groove sure hopes you've had as grand a time as moi! Hearing from Mort Todd, Roger McKenzie, and the gang behind the Charlton mini-revival has been a hoot! Looking back at the Charlton of yore has been a blast, too, but it wouldn't be complete without some sort of tribute to Charlton's far-out Horror Hosts!  Can you name 'em all?

 (And if you love those hosts, you're gonna go bonkers for Lou Mougin and Mort Todd's "The Hosts of Horror" in The Charlton Arrow #1!)

The party doesn't end here! No way! Now let's have a word from Mort Todd and the Gang from Charlton Arrow about Charlton Arrow #2!!
 

Mr. Bones returns to host a story "The Cure-All," by Stephen Skeates, Howard Bender and Neil D. Vokes.

A panel from Jack Keller's "Never Hitch a Ride," featuring Clint Curtis. Originally appeared in Hot Rods and Racing Cars #89 (February 1968) and presented to promote ACE Comics' new title Classic Hot Rods and Racing Car Comics #1, appearing in May, and shot from the original Charlton silver prints. 

An unpublished 1967 epic by Joe Gill and Pat Boyette, "The Golden Pharaoh," which will be serialized for a couple issues of The Charlton Arrow. 

 "The Barely Sentients," a parody of Charlton's off-beat superheroes The Sentinels, written & drawn by Mort Todd. 

 A panel from the highly regarded Spookman series, a Pay Boyette creation, brought back to "life" by Roger McKenzie & Sandy Carruthers. All material © their respective creators. Hot Rods & Racing Car Comics © & ™ ACE Comics Co., Inc. 




We're also talking with a very well-known Charlton creator to print a poster of his art, but can't say who yet! The Charlton Arrow #1 has a planned June 2014 release date. It and the first issue, will be available at http://morttodd.com/charlton.html

To which Roguish Roger McKenzie adds... 

...one piece of news Mort didn't mention is The Charlton Arrow #2 will feature the return of Mr. Jigsaw (man of a thousand parts!) in an all-new, all-outrageous adventure by creators: Ron Fortier & Gary Kato!




Keep the Charlton love flowing, Groove-ophiles! Buy those Arrows!!

The Boys from Derby: "The Bride Who Wants Everything" by Elier

Just a reminder, Groove-ophiles: you've only a week to get that box of Valentine's candy bought for your sweetheart! To help you remember, here's a very 1970s short-shocker sure to make your heart pitter-pat--and your nerves to jangle! From Ghostly Haunts #20 (July 1971), here's "The Bride Who Wants Everything" with art by Jean Elier...

Dy-No-Mite Duos Week! Diggin' Ditko: Winnie the Witch and Dr. Graves

Ol' Groove hopes you'll indulge him if he cheats a bit with this wild wind-up for Dy-No-Mite Duos Week. While Winnie the Witch, star of Ghostly Haunts, narrates "I'll Never Forget...What's-His-Name?", she doesn't actually team-up or interact with guest-star Dr. M. T. Graves (host of The Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves, natch), it's quite rare and pretty far-out when any Charlton characters mingle with one another. Plus it's drawn by the great Steve Ditko, so it's not like you're really gonna have much to complain about, Groove-ophiles--unless it's that these scans provide yet shining example of the horrid printing we often got in our Charlton mags. Still, this terror-tale from Ghostly Haunts #27 (August 1972) is a keeper, so Ol' Groove's sure you'll enjoy it--printing splotches and all!

The Boys from Derby: "Return Me to My Grave!" by Gill and Staton

Leave it to a couple of Joes from Charlton to send us a few shivers on this sunny Saturday! This terror tale is so far-out, Charlton published it (at least!) twice; first in Ghostly Haunts #36 (August 1973), then in Monster Hunters #13 (January 1978). Dig it, Groove-ophiles, as Joe Gill and Joe Staton shock it to us with "Return Me to My Grave!"

The Boys from Derby: PAM's "The Fourth Guest"

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Here's a far-out fear featurette by the great Pete Morisi (aka PAM). I loved PAM's shadowy, naturalistic art on Charlton's "scary" comics. It always looked so slick and classy, almost like reading an episode of Night Gallery or the Sixth Sense on the printed page. In the spotlight today we have "The Fourth Guest" from Ghostly Haunts #24 (January 1972). Check it out, baby!