You Can Run Or You Can Fight

Sunday Al Williamson Surprise. Moving onto CHeyenne Kid #11, for a two part story by Angelo Torres and Al Williamson (and not even the only work they did in that issue).More distinctive Williamson stuff here than in the previous one,s to my eye at least.

 

Charlton Pie

Sunday Williamson Surprise. 

Here is the third and final story Angelo Torres en Al Willamson did for Charton's Cheyenne Kid. In the comment section of the previous story, one of my readers provided a link to a set of pages from this story in black and white with color indications. This is by far not the last story in this series. Torres and Williamson did quite few for the next coupole of issues of Cheyenne Kid, until they stopped abrubtly.

 

Charlton Premium Label

Sunday Al Williamson Day. 

After doing short stories for Stan Lee at Timely/Atlas for many years,, Al Williamson branched out to other companies when the soon to be Marvel ran into distribution problems and had to stop production for a short while. I am not sure how much Williamson is in these Cheyenne Kid stories. They used to be credited to Angelo Torres on his own, but recently it was changed to Williamson pencils and Torres inks. But although hints of Williamson's composition is visible, I am not sure how much he actually pencilled. It doesn't help this was from the phase of his career where he changed from doing Frank Frazetta-like impressionistiv work to doing John Prentice like slicker work, with actual borders and stuff. It remains a pretty run, though. Some of these stories were rightfully included in the early Williamson print collection.

 

Charlton In Charge

 Sunday Al Williamson Surprise.

 After his first story at ACG, Al Williamson turns up at Charlton's Cheyenne Kid #10 with three stories (under a great Steve Ditko cover). Inking on all three is usually attributed to Angelo Torres, who was a contemporary of Williamson who inked a lot of hos work for Timely/Atlas before starting to sell his own work. Although Al Williamson would later eran a reputation as an extremely versatile and slick inker, in this pat of his career he seemed to have preferred working with others.

Keystone Comics

Friday Comic Book Day.

Squat Car Squad was a slapstick series for Timely's Joker, created by Al Jaffee and later continued by David Gantz, most of which I have shared here. Who drew it when a final story turned up in Charlton's 'let's see what we have lying around' title Jack-in-the Box #12, I don't know. The Grand Comics Database suggest Joel Beck, whom I don't know. But they agree it must have been from some sort of garage sale, either from Timely's owner or the artist.

Say It Ain't So, Joe.

Friday Comic Book Day.

When Atlas imploded in the late fifties as a result of their distributor's semise, Joe maneely looked for work at other companies. He did manage to sell a couple of stories to DC, but the bulk of his outside work was done for the much lesser paying Charlton company. Even though it is clearly a rush job, the basic design qualities of Maneely work hold up.

Cracking Art

Friday Comic Book Day.

I have not yet shown any of Pete Morisi's later work, all of which was for low rent publisher Charlton. He had settled down into a slick and graphicly interesting style that showed his admiration for the work of George Tuska. I guess there will be a lot of Tuska swipes (especially for the faces) inthere and I think I even saw some Kubert material in there.