That’s wild! Huge feat. Is this something ylu wanted to do because you read a lot of the DC versions? How do they compare? Nightshade and Question are my top two favourite of those, but have they evolved a lot since Charlton?

My main motivation was seeing how they were used pre-DC and the fact that it seemed pretty achievable; the entirety of Charlton's superhero output was less than 100 issues. I've managed to track down all the issues but the very early Captain Atom issues and the first Peacemaker appearances but those are available to read in collections.

The good stuff is very good (Ted Kord, Question, Peter Cannon) but there is a lot of very average and some very boring stuff. The handful of issues published after the 60s aren't really even worth reading at all.

Nightshade is the one character on the list that never had her own title. She appeared as a supporting character and eventually got a back up spot in Captain Atom's book. Her backstory is mostly unchanged and Suicide Squad even picks up on the brief origin she was given and expands it nicely. I do think she has changed quite a bit since as far as her powers are concerned but I don't recall them really giving her any civilian life outside that one arc.

Question isn't a character I've read as much of in DC. I mostly know him from 52 so I can't really compare properly. I'd love someone who has read the O'Neil run to weigh in. I do feel like he is the most morally uncompromising of any Charlton character. I know Ditko really explored his Ayn Rand/objectivist ideology beginning with Question and further solidified it in his character Mr. A. It was a little on the nose I guess where everyone was basically morally compromised except Vic Sage who continually put himself in harms way or risked his reputation for his unflinching sense of right. And then he acted superior for it. I'm not saying his reaction was wrong but it came off a little heavy handed to me.

The O’Neil run of The Question is precisely why I like the character so much. It was rough and gritty in the best possible way. He didn’t bring the objectivism to the character but focuses on the moral grey of vigilantism. O’Neil paired Vic with a confidant in Aristotle Rodar who acts, not so much as his conscience, but a philosophical mirror to see himself in.

I wish the Charlton issues would have allowed for more grey areas. But I've read that Ditko created Question to live in a world where the Comic Code Authority wouldn't allow for that nuance and Mr. A for a world without the Code. As for Rodar, he's barely a cameo character. Other than being the creator of Pseudoderm, he doesn't have much of a role in the stories.

The other thing I’m curious about is how serious is Ted Kord originally? Most modern interpretations take the JLI days and Booster bromance into account. His redemption in being a serious hero was handled well by having him be the first to see through Max Lord.

He's pretty serious. Maybe a little more lighthearted than say Question or early Captain Atom but not much. It kind of reminds me of the dry Hal Jordan personality from early GL that everyone loves to hate. I think the whole line was honestly pretty locked into the silver age/no personality trope. Most of the characters you could swap out for one another with no discernible differences. The only real humor I saw was some wise cracking while punching out villains and even that was mostly limited to Captain Atom and Nightshade banter and Blue Beetle.