Comic books published by Charlton Comics Group, graded by CBCS

Add to cart CBCS 9.6 $150.00 Paper: White Label #20-4938345-005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, Tom Sutton, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, Joe Gill, Recreo and Richard Larson. More tales of ghosts, witches, and demons from Charlton's stable of artists. Anna uses her niece Lucille's psychic powers to find people to rob, but those aren't Lucille's only powers, in a story with art (and cover) by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Hateful townspeople attack the Bolt Mansion with fire, but their hate will come back at them. The ghost of a French soldier lures three Nazis into the crypts below Paris. Plus a text story with spot illustrations by future horror legend Tom Sutton. Incident at Soulbridge; City of the Dead; The Lonesome Bride of Carnabey Castle; All in the Mind of Lucille Michaud. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $92.00 Paper: White Label #21-2F3BC32-026 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.76) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, Tom Sutton, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, Joe Gill, Recreo and Richard Larson. More tales of ghosts, witches, and demons from Charlton's stable of artists. Anna uses her niece Lucille's psychic powers to find people to rob, but those aren't Lucille's only powers, in a story with art (and cover) by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Hateful townspeople attack the Bolt Mansion with fire, but their hate will come back at them. The ghost of a French soldier lures three Nazis into the crypts below Paris. Plus a text story with spot illustrations by future horror legend Tom Sutton. Incident at Soulbridge; City of the Dead; The Lonesome Bride of Carnabey Castle; All in the Mind of Lucille Michaud. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $235.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-4897055-004

Cover by Bill Fraccio and Frank McLaughlin. Stories and art by Joe Gill, Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico. The second Charlton series to feature Dan Garrett, the Golden Age Blue Beetle, is also the first to contain original material. This issue is also notable as Charlton's first entry into the superhero genre in the Silver Age. Dan Garrett, the Golden Age Blue Beetle, battles an ancient mummy. An injured police officer needs an artificial heart to survive, in a story that predates the actual artificial heart by a decade or two. Plus fun facts about the duckbill platypus, a "fun" animal if there ever was one. The Giant Mummy Who Was Not Dead; Jungle Waters; Freaks of Nature; Have a Heart; Record of the Rocks. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $330.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-2F3BC32-028 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.90) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, David Charles Glanzman and Dick Giordano. The third (or fourth, depending on how you count it) Charlton series to feature the Blue Beetle introduces the Silver Age BB, Ted Kord (after his debut as a backup character in Captain Atom). In one of the first superhero "reboots," Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko gives the Golden Age hero a new look, new tech, and a new alter ego, then sets him against the Squid Gang. The backup story introduces another classic Ditko hero: Vic Sage, the faceless crimefighter known as The Question. Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids; Who is the Question? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $185.00 Paper: Off white Label #21-34BDE0B-005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.55) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Steve Ditko, inks by Rocke "Rocke" Mastroserio. Captain Atom Vs. The Ghost, script by David Kaler, pencils by Steve Ditko, inks by Rocke Mastroserio; The Ghost is planning to rob Fort Knox; The Government teams up Captain Atom and Nightshade to stop him; intro of Nightshade. Judo Master: Favorite Throws, script and art by Frank McLaughlin. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CBCS 9.2 $1,410.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #18-3A90FAA-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($42.30) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

First appearance of Ted Kord (second Blue Beetle). Cover pencils by Steve Ditko, inks by Rocke "Rocke" Mastroserio. Finally Falls the Mighty!, script by Steve Ditko (plot) and David Kaler, pencils by Steve Ditko, inks by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; Captain Atom loses his powers; cameo by Iron Arms. The New Blue Beetle, script by Steve Ditko (plot) and Gary Friedrich, art by Steve Ditko; intro of Blue Beetle/Ted Kord. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $130.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-40ADE66-007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.90) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Frank Bolle. Stories and art by Demetrio Sanchez Gomez and others. The 1970s brought relationship complexities to romance comics, along with some unique fashion and design choices. Melissa's interfering parents take her to the Caribbean to get her away from boyfriend Chad, so she gets a job in the islands and makes it her new home. Susan struggles with her weight problem, and that puts pressure on her relationship with Dennis. Love Above All; Runaway!; My Only Love! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $79.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #24-0990935-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.40) will be charged at checkout.

Painted cover by Sanho Kim. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, Fred Himes, Joe Gill, Gary Petras, Tom Peterson and Sanho Kim. A horror anthology from Charlton, with a stable of artists that included Steve Ditko. A hunter decides to go after the most dangerous game during an African safari, in a story with art by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Dodd wants to find a new love after murdering Beatrice, but each new woman he dates has visions of Dodd as a monster. Trophy Room; The Possessed; Ghosts Town. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $79.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #24-0990935-002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.40) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Tom Sutton. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, Bill Molno, Steve Morisi, Joe Gill and Murray Postell. A horror anthology from Charlton that often featured work by Steve Ditko and other comics luminaries. Leon is dedicated to wiping out the cats on the remote island where he works, until they inevitably go all Jurassic Park on him, in a story with art by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Latin American revolutionary "El Tigre" becomes his country's latest dictator, unmindful of the real caged tiger kept in his palace at all times. Brett learns what lives in the bayou. Cover by future horror legend Tom Sutton. One Night in the Bayou; El Tigre Lives; The Detective-Medium; The Man Who Hated Cats. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $120.00 Paper: White Label #21-155D344-010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.60) will be charged at checkout.

The Jetsons in "No Rust on Rosey," "Sum Toi" (scripts on both by Joe Gill, art by Ray Dirgo), and "Happy Birthday, Moon!" Touche and Dum-Dum in "Who's That Knocking Down My Door?" One-page "The Mustang" (art by Bill Montes). Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CBCS 7.0 $150.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-2F2E951-021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover art by Steve Ditko. "What Makes a Hero?", script by Steve Ditko (Plot) and D. C. Glanzman (script), art by Steve Ditko; Sage links the "soda king" with a racketeer and refuses to accept him as a sponsor; The rest of the network folk go ballistic and try to force Sage to recant; Sage tries desperately to prove the connection between Kroe and Ord before he loses his job. "Martian Masters" text story. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CBCS 9.0 $375.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #21-31C4038-021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bill Yates. Stories and art by Bill Yates and others. Misadventures of the McDonald's mascot from Charlton. Ronald uses snowmen and a snowball to invent snow-bowling, a game Calvin would love. The kids ask Ronald to watch baby Rodney, who turns out to be a double handful of trouble. Ronald builds a robot to help with the housework, in a story that features him uttering the ominous line, "I'm beginning to feel like Dr. Frankenstein!" Plus activity pages, and a back cover pinup of the "real" Ronald McDonald. Ronald's Search; Snow Bowl; The Tycoon; Fat Cat; Stepping Out; Ronald's Land Scramble; Professor Phumble: Phantastic Inventions; Fail Safe; Bear Facts; Ronald McDonald Riddles; Man Maid; Loose Goose; Ronald's Spell-Out. Final issue of the series; the comics were reprinted with new covers as promotional giveaways for the restaurant. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CBCS 7.0 $200.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #17-4049963-092 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

"Nothing He Couldn't Do!", pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Ernie Bache; Four shipwrecked men are stranded on a cannibal island and captured immediately. "Death of A Gambler!", script by Carl Memling, pencils by Bill Molno (as Joe Shuster), inks by Vince Alascia; Wealthy Jeff Traynor loses all at gambling and becomes a derelict. "Tara Tusta" text story. "Picture of the Future," script by Carl Memling, art by Seymour Moskowitz; Two gangsters rob an exhibition and come into possession of a magic scroll which forecasts their future. "Mental Wizard!", script by Carl Memling; Don Brunt killed his wife and got away with the crime. "The Crusher," script by Carl Memling; Sadistic plantation owner Barney Tragg flogs his wife's lover to death with a whip. Injury to eye panel. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 9.6 $104.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #19-45EEC91-023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.12) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Siggy’s Comics

Painted cover by Warren Sattler. Stories and art by Warren Sattler and Joe Gill. Partners in Death. Chinese martial-arts expert Yang fights injustice and slavery in the American West of the 1890s. Yin Li once again falls into the clutches of Captain Keegan and his crew of killers. Even though she has tried to kill him repeatedly, Yang risks everything to save Yin Li, the woman he loves. Will her icy heart finally melt for him this time? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.