Charlton Premiere Presents Trio - It's...The Shape!

The Shape by Roy Thomas and the late Richard "Grass" Green in Charlton Premiere #1 is one of the strangest features ever. Created in the tradition of successful stretchy and shape-shifting heroes like

Plastic Man,

Mister Fantastic,

and Elongated Man,
the Shape was something different still.

Charlton Premiere is The Shape's sole appearance, but it's not too much to say that his wacky nature and shape-shifting ways might indeed have inspired a certain Energy Man who appeared in the Charlton line-up a few years later.

They have much in common, especially a truly wacky sense of humor.

Here from 1967 is "It's The Shape!" by Thomas and Green. Enjoy!

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Charlton Premiere Presents Trio - The Spookman!

The Spookman by Pat Boyette was apparently originally to be called "Sandman", but alas that name was taken. His presence brings a little heft to a comic which had real diversity. I'd have loved to see some more Spookman stories but I can't imagine anyone but Boyette drawing them. (Some relatively recent efforts to revive the hero have proved to me that Boyette is a hard act to follow.)

Now that's a hoot! And a face only a mother could love. We wrap all this up tomorrow with The Shape. 

We wrap all this up tomorrow with The Shape. 

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Charlton Premiere Presents Trio - The Tyro Team!

Today begins a three-day celebration of the debut issue of Charlton Premiere. The comic book was a try-out which last a mere four issues, but the first was a doozy. It had three distinct features and we'll look at them all. And that brings us to Steve Skeates' The Tyro Team. The artwork on this feature is the always reliable team of Bill Montes and Ernie Bache. Below you'll find a text piece from the issue discussing the way these stories came to be gathered together under one cover.

 I'll get to The Spookman and The Shape in due course. And now let the stories begin The Tyro Team.

 That was fun. Tomorrow it's The Spookman. 

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The Tyro Team!

I've already presented Pat Boyette's Spookman and Grass Green's The Shape from the debut issue of Charlton Premiere, so let me round out that with Steve Skeates' The Tyro Team. The artwork on this feature is the reliable team of Bill Montes and Ernie Bache. Below you'll find a text piece from the issue discussing the way these stories came to be gathered together under one cover. And now let the story begin. That was fun. Rip Off