CREATOR

Name: Charlton Comics (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1946 as a division of Charlton Publications. Stopped in 1985. Founders were Ed Levy and John Santangelo.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Charlton in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: Charlton published stories from all genres of the comic book universe. The company was known for its low-budget activities that included the publishing of previously unpublished material from bygone companies.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1957. Stopped in 1959 after 9 issues.

The starring character started out as an ordinary anthropomorphic cat named Tom Cat, but after having been subjected to atomic radiation from a nuclear reactor, he acquired superpowers, that he maintains by eating fresh fish. He is surrounded by several characters such as Atomic Rabbit, Boston Bulldozer, Li'l Kit Kat,  Li'l Rabbit, Long John, and Siamese Sam.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER

Atom the Cat

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#10 - 1957
#11 - 1958
#12 - 1958

#14 - 1959
#16 - 1959
#17 - 1959

 

 

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