A consortium of young amatuers...John Byrne, Roger Stern, Bob Layton, and Roger Slifer, to name a few...

They produced/published the fanzine CPL and assembled Charlton's original Charlton Bullseye...

Here's Wikipedia's note in the Charlton entry...

In the mid-'70s, there was a brief resurgence of talent, under the editorship of George Wildman, energized by writer and later editor Nicola Cuti, artist Joe Staton, and the "CPL Gang" — a group of writer/artist comics fans including Byrne, Roger Stern, Bob Layton, and Roger Slifer, who had all worked on the fanzine CPL (Contemporary Pictorial Literature). Charlton began publishing such new titles as E-Man, Midnight Tales, and Doomsday + 1. The CPL Gang also produced an in-house fanzine called Charlton Bullseye which published, among other things, such commissioned but previously unpublished material as the company's last Captain Atom story. Also during this period, most of Charlton's titles began sporting painted covers. By 1978, however, most of these titles had been canceled, and the new talent had moved on to Marvel and DC.

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