E-MAN Cover Gallery - The CHARLTON Issues...

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A staggering 40 years ago (my senses spin with the realisation) I bought First Comics 7-issue series of Charlton's E-Man, originally published in 10 monthly comic mags back in the '70s.  I remember the day my father bought me Charlton's first issue in an 'atmospheric' (dingy if you prefer) newsagent's around the corner from Glasgow's famous Barrowland market ('The Barras'), and me reading it on the bus on the way home.  (This would've been near the end of '73 or sometime in '74.)  I think I may have got #2 from a local shop in my home town sometime later, but I never saw any subsequent issues (that I recall) until the reprint series in 1985.

As far as I remember, the 7 reprint issues didn't contain any of the original back-up strips of the Charlton series (not at hand to check), which included The Knight, Killjoy (by Ditko), Travis In The Dragon Killer, Liberty Belle (Ditko again), and Rog 2000 (Byrne).  Rog had first appeared in a fanzine called CPL and his strip in E-Man #6 marked John Byrne's first work published in colour.  The mag lasted for two years, from 1973 to '75, and it's strange to think I was yet a mere schoolboy when it first came out, and a working lad when it finished - even though I was completely unaware of its schedule or lifespan at the time.    

And now, 40 years later, I've only gone and bought the original 10 comics in one go, even though I purchased a replacement for my '73 first ish quite a number of years back, meaning I now have two copies of that premiere issue.  (Well, it's always handy to have a spare.)  So why burden you with this information you may be wondering.  Obviously, I'm paving the way for this E-Man cover gallery, necessitating a certain amount of preamble beforehand (well, preamble would be out-of-place afterwards, wouldn't it).  So enough waffle from me, as I unleash 10 cataclysmic covers (and a Nova 'pin-up') from yesteryear just for you.

Was E-Man one of your favourite comics back in the day?  Then be sure to share your reflective reminiscences in our potentially captivating comments section.  (It needs you!)