CHARLTON'S 'THE THING!'

Associated in name only to the movie, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, Charlton's THE THING ran for 17 issues from February 1952 - November 1954 and was discontinued in the face of the restrictions imposed by the Comics Code Authority. Subtitled, "Weird Tales of Suspense and Horror", Al Fago was the managing editor for the Charlton line of comics, as well as the editor for the entire run of THE THING.

THE THING

Vol. 1 No. 1

February 1952

Song Hits, Inc. (Charlton)

Editor: Al Fago

Cover: Bob Forgione

Pages: 36

Cover price: 10 cents

CONTENTS

"The Creature From Dimension 2-K-31"

Script: ?

Art: Al Tyler; Bob Forgione

"Grunwald"

Script: ?

Art: Al Tyler; Bob Forgione

"Nightmare"

Script: ?

Art: Al Tyler; Bob Forgione

"Hellfire of Doom"

Script: ?

Art: Al Tyler; Bob Forgione

THE GREEN THING!

While not a faithful adaptation of Campbell's "Who Goes There?", this story from EC's WEIRD FANTASY#16 (November-December 1952) is considered to be influenced by it. The story is by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein and the art is by Joe Orlando.

E.C. Comics logo and images are Copyright © by William M. Gaines, Agent, Inc., and are used here for historical purposes. 

'THE THING' LOBBY CARDS

Here are the nicely-designed lobby cards for THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (RKO, 1951):