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Charlton was usually one's third choice for comics. You were either a Marvel guy or a DC guy, and after that, well, there was either Gold Key - which could be okay, because they did Star Trek and other TV shows, but they didn't have much individual personality. Charlton did, and it always felt like copycat comics, done on the cheap. The lettering was often typeset, which really didn't help at all. But they had Ditko after he stormed away from Marvel, and for a while they were cool. But it always felt like something your Grandma would buy to have on hand for the kids, not knowing what the kids really wanted at all.
Note the signature: Jon D'Agostino. (Not really a sig - it's the typeface you'd get on wedding matchbooks.) He drew and inked and penciled and lettered for everyone, but is best known for his Archie work. But: he did the lettering on the first Spiderman comic book. (The first all-Spidey book, not Amazing Tales #15.) So he has a place in history for that, at the very least. He died towards the end of 2010.
He wasn't the first artist on the Hunk covers. Check out the first few. Oy. |