Charlton Media Group (CMG) is a Montreal-based publisher owned and operated by Canadian entrepreneur Roger Broughton.
[1] Most of Charlton's superhero characters had been acquired in 1983 by DC Comics,[2] and Broughton's company Sword in Stone Productions purchased the reprint rights to the remaining Charlton Comics properties in 1986.
[3] Broughton produced several reprint titles under the company name of Avalon Communications and its imprint America's Comics Group (ACG), Broughton having also purchased the rights to the defunct American Comics Group properties.
Broughton at first concentrated on syndicating material worldwide, while publishing a few comics titles in America, including the 1999 ACG Classix imprint Pulp Comics, which primarily reprinted the early 1940s syndicated newspaper strip, The Shadow, based on the popular Street and Smith Shadow pulp novels and famous radio show character.
[4] In 2002, Broughton announced the merger of ACG with a film production company and a graphic design firm to form the Charlton Media Group[5] (not related to the Charlton Media Group of Singapore, which produces business-related publications), created in part to publish new comics and reprints featuring Charlton and ACG characters.