Charlton Canadian Price Variants

[Defiant1]

Thanks to Metarog & Mike Oxsmall at the STL forum for the info below:

forum.stlcomics.com/viewtopic.php?t=4433&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Here is a preliminary list of Charlton titles which may have Canadian price variants between 2/1983-8/1984.

Attack (1971 5th Series Charlton) Charlton Comics Group
Battlefield Action (1957) Charlton Comics Group
Beyond the Grave (1975 Charlton) Charlton Comics Group
Billy the Kid (Charlton 1956) Charlton Comics Group
Fightin Army (1956) Charlton Comics Group
Fightin Marines (1951 St. John/Charlton) Charlton Comics Group
Fightin Navy (1956) Charlton Comics Group
Ghost Manor (1971) Charlton Comics Group
Ghostly Tales (1966) Charlton Comics Group
Gunfighters (1966 Charlton) Charlton Comics Group
Haunted (1971 Charlton) Charlton Comics Group
Scary Tales (1975 Charlton) Charlton Comics Group
Soap Opera Love (1983) Charlton Comics Group
Soap Opera Romances (1982) Charlton Comics Group
War (1975 Charlton) Charlton Comics Group

This list may be incomplete. I collect the adult humor magazines from Charlton and they could have variants also.

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[gowaltrip]

From the couple of examples that were pictured, they would be hard to tell because they look identical to any other Charlton comic. The only way it hit me as different is it looked like I was looking at Charltons with a normal 50 or 60 cent cover. The comics looked to be from that era and it had a 75 cent cover price. That didn't dawn on me when I first seen it. It looked so normal otherwise. But one thing I know is when Charltons hit 75 cents (their last gasp) they had a different look to them than the previous price ranges. Like namely a Logo price box in a triangular fashion in the upper left corner. So I'd say you'd have to be on your game to even realize you're looking at a Canadian price variant.

Pretty interesting stuff.

[Defiant1]

Attack (1971) 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47
Battlefield Action (1957) 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
Beyond the Grave (1975) 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Billy the Kid (1957) 153
Fightin' Army (1957) 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170
Fightin' Marines (1955) 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175
Fightin' Navy (1956) 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132
Ghost Manor (1971) 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75
Ghostly Tales (1966) 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168
Gunfighters (1966) 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 83, 84, 85
Haunted (1971) 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74
Scary Tales (1975) 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45
Soap Opera Love (1983) 1, 2, 3
Soap Opera Romances (1982) 5
War (1975) 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

Possible Additions:

Cartoon Carnival (1962) 106(?)-110
Good Humor (circa 1961) 107(?) - 116

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[Defiant1]

War #42


War #44


Have some more to add. I'm thinking the Soap Opera issues will be the hardest to find.

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[Defiant1]

I've acquired scans of all the Canadian Battlefield Action price variants.

Battlefield Action #83-#87 (75¢ Price Variant)


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[Defiant1]

charlton.herobo.com/Charlton_index.html

Added a scan for:

Fightin' Navy #131 (Canadian price variant)


Thanks to "Bellrules1" for the scan.

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[Defiant1]

The Charlton Checklist has been updated to version 9.19.

charlton.herobo.com/Charlton_index.html

Added the following scans:

Fightin' Marines #172 (Canadian Price Variant)


Fightin' Marines #173 (Canadian Price Variant)


Fightin' Marines #174 (Canadian Price Variant)


Fightin' Marines #175 (Canadian Price Variant)


Thanks to "Bellrules1" for the scans.

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[Defiant1]

Added a scan for:

Attack (Series 4) #43 (Canadian Price Variant)


I definitely need an upgraded scan of this.

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[Defiant1]

Added a scan for:

Attack (Series 4) #42 (Canadian Price Variant)


Attack (Series 4) #47 (Canadian Price Variant)


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[Defiant1]

Here is where I stand on scans for Attack Price variants...

Attack #'s 39 through 47


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[Defiant1]

Added these to the checklist...

Beyond the Grave #11 (Canadian Price Variant)


Beyond the Grave #13 (Canadian Price Variant)


Beyond the Grave #14 (Canadian Price Variant)


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Here is where I stand on scans of Canadian variants for:

Beyond the Grave #'s 9 through 16


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