The weblog TV Tropes, in an undated entry, provides a short history of Charlton, a low budget printer/publisher. Charlton’s printing presses had been used first and significant to print cereal packing containers. Charlton minimize corners by utilizing plastic printing plates quite than customary steel plates. It operated on a budget for its complete existence from 1935 to 1986, when it finally shut its doorways (and retired its overworked printing presses.) Wikipedia describes the starting up set of the enterprise by telling that John Santangelo Jr and Ed Levy met whereas in penitentiary. Santangelo had been publishing tune-lyric magazines, violating copyrights, and used to be sentenced to a year in penitentiary. Levy used to be a legal skilled, whose crime is rarely any longer listed. They both had sons named Charles, which created their first firm name, T.W.O. Charles Firm, later modified to Charlton.
Charlton went into comic books within the ’40s, and published Yellowjacket Comics, which featured an peculiar hero, Yellowjacket, who might likely well additionally get bees to lend a hand him. Demonstrate: Yellowjacket used to be beaten to comic books by Red Bee, from Quality Comics. Additionally, as has been identified, a yellowjacket is rarely any longer a bee, but a yellowjacket costume used to be lustrous yellow, and seemed better in comic books printed using plastic printing plates.
From Yellowjacket Comics #5 (1945). Art work, pencils finest, attributed by the Colossal Comics Database to Ken Battefield.
