Bill Molno was a Charlton mainstay for a decade or more on the anthology books; I see his occasional series entries mostly on the Westerns. Unless I've missed earlier stories, his debut at the company in 1954 was ghost pencils for Joe Shuster. Mark Evanier gives Dick Giordano's explanation of the ghosting in a comment on the previous post .
Here's a page from "The Well of Fear" in
Strange Suspense Stories21 compared with one from about three and a half years later—after Joe Shuster's credits are long gone—"The House of Man,"
Out of This World 7 (Feb/58). Molno is inking himself on this one
There are a few more stories with Shuster's credit at Charlton that I haven't seen—hot rod ones, for instance. Unsigned 1954 stories penciled by Molno and inked by others include "Food for Thought" (
SSS20, Aug), "Who Will He Be?" and "This Bite Is Sweet" (
SSS21, Sept), "Mental Wizard" and, possibly, "The Crusher" (
The Thing 16, Sept), and "Where Do They Lurk?" (
This Magazine Is Haunted 19, Aug). I mention them thinking of the uncredited Jerry Grandenetti pieces in the mid-Sixties that have been misattributed to Joe Orlando, for whom he was ghosting elsewhere at the time. There are other "Shuster" stories in the GCD that could be looked at a second time.
Bill Molno Stories Ghost-Penciling for Joe Shuster
(Inked by Ray Osrin except as noted)
Crime and Justice| July/54 | 19 | The Death Watch [RADIO PATROL] |
| Sep/ | 20 | The Anniversary Gift [MR & MRS CHASE] |
| | A Deadly Circle [RADIO PATROL] |
| Nov/ | 21 | The $64,000 Question [MR & MRS CHASE] |
| | Road Pirates |
| | Finale for Fingers |
Racket Squad in Action
| A-S/54 | 12 | Robbery by Appointment |
| | The Ransom Swindle |
| | Protection Game |
| O-N/ | 13 | Malignant Model Agency |
| | The Basketball Scandals |
Space Adventures
| M-J/54 | 11 | Interplanetary Safari (inked by Dick Giordano) |
Strange Suspense Stories
| July/54 | 19 | Give Back My Body (no inker signature) |
| Sept/ | 21 | The Well of Fear |
| Nov/ | 22 | The Secret of the Box |
The Thing| Sept/54 | 16 | Death of a Gambler (inked by Vince Alascia) |
This Magazine Is Haunted| July/54 | 18 | The Last Earl (inked by John Belfi) |
| Sept/ | 20 | Quest of the Beyond |
