The Blue Beetle Comes To Charlton!

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Charlton was one of those companies that survived the Golden Age of comics by keeping their ears to the ground as trends and sweeping up properties from defunct publishers. They gathered many from Fawcett when it went under and it gobbled up the Fox / Holyoke Blue Beetle when that property became available in 1955. 

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The Blue Beetle title took over the numbering of The Thing which had been ironically showcasing the work of Steve Ditko. The first two issues of the Charlton Blue Beetle series reprinted stories from years before. 

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Under new covers most likely by Dick Giordano the Blue Beetle is shown flying on the covers. The Beetle's powers had slowly increased during the Golden Age. Now in this series which featured new stories drawn by Ted Galindo and Ray Orsin the Beetle becomes a potent figure, able to fight crime on the streets and fly into space. 

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We get two issues of new stories starring the Beetle before the series is cancelled. It would be a decade before Charlton would revive and substantially revise the hero. The Blue Beetle was far from gone, merely hibernating until his next incarnation. 

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