Aparo In Sinn!

In the tenth and final issue of Charlton's Secret Agent (formerly Sarge Steel), David Kaler and Jim Aparo join forces to craft the third and final installment of the adventures of "Tiffany Sinn: Sweetheart of the C.I.A.". In the story "Espionage: Miami Beach Style" Aparo's typical craftsmanship is on display and Ms.Sinn looks at once beautiful, naive, and daring as a secret agent.


To read Tiffany's final adventure see this four-color link. Tiffany Sinn had two previous adventures at Charlton, in the romance line of all places.


Career Girl Romances #38 featured her debut.

(Flashback by Jim Aparo)
She was created by Gary Friedrich who wrote the first story titled "To Save an Agent", which featured artwork by the stalwart Charlton team of Charles Nicholas and Nick Alascia.


Under a very attractive cover by Dick Giordano, Career Girl Romances #39 spotlighted Tiffany again.

(Flashback by Jim Aparo)
This time featuring artwork by Luis Dominguez titled "St.Louis Stake-Out".



Tiffany's final appearance has been reprinted a few times at least. Once in French in the magazine Flash Espionage.


And in Super Giant Album #23 published in Australia.

Jim Aparo's artwork remains sturdy regardless of the time and place.

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Deadly Nightshade!

Will Meugniot
Here's a beautiful rendering of Charlton's Nightshade by Will Meugniot, an artist better known in the animation world, but respected by me for his outstanding Good Girl work on Femforce and his great run on DNAgents with Mark Evanier so many moons ago.

Steve Ditko
Nightshade was the sole female "Action Hero", appearing first as an enigmatic partner and at times seeming love interest for Captain Atom. She appeared in several Captain Atom adventures and was first drawn and presumably desgined by Steve Ditko.

Eventually she was given her own feature in the back pages of Captain Atom, with a story by David Kaler (her co-creator) and artwork by Jim Aparo.

Jim Aparo
To get a good look at one of these handsome tales check out this link. Nightshade takes on Jewelee, a villainess she first encountered with Captain Atom, and we meet her trainer, a man who will be familiar to Judomaster fans.

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Captain Atom - Showdown In Sunuria!

Above is the first half of an up-to-then unpublished Captain Atom story. Charlton Bullseye was a fanzine begun by the CPL Gang (Roger Stern, Duffy Vohland, John Byrne, Bob Layton, and others) which got hold of some of Charlton's unpublished material thanks to then-editor George Wildman and made it available to the fans, in glorious.

It's a real treat to see Byrne's inks on prime Ditko pencils. The story involves Cap with his arch-nemesis The Ghost and guest stars the Deadly Nightshade. It's a whopping bruiser of a story.

The Al Milgrom cover is fantastic, and is neat since the revision of Captain Marvel (which Milgrom inked and later penciled) was largely based visually on Captain Atom.

The "Jon G. Michels" credited with the script on this one is actually Roger Stern.

The second half of the story appeared in Charlton Bullseye #2, and appears here.

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