CHARLTON COMICSThe decision to create new characters instead of the existing Charlton characters for the Watchmen was a Dick Giordano thing. DC bought the Charlton heroes as a present for Dick, as he was the editor largely responsible for their existence in the 60's, and I guess Dick kind of felt they were his babies, and hoped they' ...d integrate well with the DC Universe. Time's proven that theory mostly wrong, but I hear ya Sam.