He wanted to draw Captain America, but John Byrne was doing Cap at the time and The Avengers was the closest Marvel could do to fulfilling that request. In total, Newton did 79 stories featuring Batman or members of the Batman family during his tenure at DC. Newton also did a couple of issues of the Brave and the Bold, starring Batman. Newton would also do back-up stories in Batman, featuring Batman or Robin or Catwoman for the next two years before beginning a two-year stint on the main Batman strip beginning in late 1982. Within six months Don Newton became the regular penciler of Detective Comics. The fallout from this was a late script for issue #69, Newton having a hand in all future stories, and Bill Pearson being hired to color the interiors of the Phantom. There was much confusion at Charlton over who would write and control the book. Newton rewrote and drew issue #68, but issue #69 only featured a cover painting by Newton. Newton would pencil and ink all of his Phantom work and would supply a cover painting for every issue he drew. Newton provided the cover painting, all interior artwork and some reworking of the script.Īlthough the story, "Triumph of Evil!," is attributed to Joe Gill, Newton would later claim that he "re-wrote 50% of #67 script." Within a few months, Newton would have even more control over the character. Newton was stylistically reinventing the character, and his first work on the character just happened to be a retelling of the Phantom's origin, written by Joe Gill. In October 1975 Newton's first issue of the Phantom, #67, was published. The September 1975 issue of Midnight Tales saw the last of the new horror work that Newton would do for Charlton.
Besides drawing for the Charlton horror comics, Newton also began painting covers for their horror and romance books. Newton's first work for Charlton appeared in Ghost Manor #18, March, 1974.
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Newton finally set his sights a little lower and sent some sample pages to Nicola Cuti at Charlton Comics where his first professional comic book work was published. Marvel in particular wanted their artists close at hand. Newton tried for years to leverage his connections in fandom into work at DC Comics or Marvel Comics, but he was at a distinct disadvantage, living in Arizona.
Issue #65 of the RBCC sported a Newton Savage Earth painting as its cover. Over a period stretching from 1968 to 1970 the science fiction strip appeared in issues 60-70 of the RBCC'. Newton did one major strip during this time, which ran for more than a year in the RBCC called The Savage Earth.
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