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Carl Memling at Charlton--Who Knew?

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I was looking for Carl Memling scripts at Timely/Atlas in the Fifties, where he's known to have written for the horror anthologies (I haven't found any of his there yet); but with his style fresh in my mind, when I was merely reading some Fifties Charlton comics and not expecting to recognize writers, I happened across him. A Memling trademark that I've mentioned before is sirens or car engines going "Rowrrrrr."

Crime and Justice 19, The 64,000 Dollar Question--'Rowrrrrr'

There are one or two more Crime and Justice scripts that could be Memling's, but I'll err on the side of caution and leave them off for now. I'll get to more titles eventually; he wrote quite a bit in two years or so.

The writers known to have done some work for Charlton in the early-through-mid-Fifties include Walter B. Gibson, Bruce Hamilton, Ken Fitch, Harry Shorten, and Jerry Siegel. Fitch was one writer who, in addition to scripts written directly for Charlton, had work published there out of other companies' bought-out inventories. Joe Gill was writing for Charlton around 1954 but didn't become their house writer, filling almost all the pages, for another few years.

Carl Memling Scripts in
Crime and Justice


July/5314 Down the Drain
Three O'Clock Shadow
Sep/    15 Vacation from Violence [MR & MRS CHASE]
Behind Locked Doors
Stormy Crossing
Eye Witness
Nov/    16 Peril on the Pacific [MR & MRS CHASE]
The Hatchet Is Buried
Feb/5417 No Way Out
Apr/    18 Killer on the Loose [RADIO PATROL]
Terror under the Big Top [MR & MRS CHASE]
July/    19 Three's a Mob
Sep/    20 A Deadly Circle [RADIO PATROL]
Nov/    21 The $64,000 Question [MR & MRS CHASE]
Road Pirates

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