Dick
Wood was credited for scripts at Charlton, but that was in
1969. He had a run of Phantom stories just after the company took over
the title from King Comics. Those may have been inventory scripts, or
Charlton may have hired him for his familiarity with the character;
three of his scripts were illustrated by Charlton artists like Jim
Aparo. The fourth, the only one drawn there by Bill Lignante, I'd
imagine was completed at King and so looks an inventory story on all counts. But
to paraphrase Arlo Guthrie, that's not what I'm here to talk about.
I'm here to talk about 1956.
Scanning Charlton's Fifties output for Carl Memling stories, I couldn't
help seeing some by Dick Wood; his style is so colorful: "Great
suffering Hannah!" or in the case above, "Jumping cats!" I find a handful of his stories, all in the one
year. Before anyone asks, I
haven't IDed the writer on the four other new Blue Beetle stories of
the
period,
in
BB 20
and 21 (June and August, 1955).
Dick
Wood 1950s Charlton Scripts
Blue Beetle
in Nature Boy
| Mar/56 |
3 |
Unmasked |
p: Charles Nicholas
i:
Sal Trapani |
anthology
stories:
Out
of This World
| Aug/56 |
1 |
The
Mission from Outer Space |
a: Nicholas |
Racket
Squad in Action
| Feb/56 |
20 |
The
Portrait Racketeers |
p: Bill Molno
i:
Trapani |
Strange
Suspense Stories
| Aug/56 |
30 |
Lost
Child |
p: Molno i:
Trapani |
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