Pure Excitement Comics is maintained by Bill Nolan.

Vol. 1 No. 17
January 2000

In This Issue:

Contents Page

Red Panther

Fantomah

Miss Masque

Other issues!


Next Month:

Three great stories featuring Golden Age Mysterymen!


Bill Nolan's
Other Pages:

The Gallery of Golden Age Heroes!
A closer look at some great Golden Age characters!

Prescription
for Excitement!
A look at
classic "in-house"
comic book ads.

Home Page

Custom Action
Figure Page

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Related Links:

Captain Comics
Home of the weekly comic book columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service

Big Shot
A great site focusing on that particular Golden Age title.

The Spirit
A great site dedicated to what was probably the best comic feature of the Golden Age!

Other Golden Age Reprints
James Ludwig's great Golden Age reprint site!

The Cheeks The Toy Wonder Home Page
A fantastic place for fans of Silver Age comics to explore!

A Guide To Marvel's Golden Age Characters
A rundown of some of the great characters I cannot feature here.

The Good Guys and Gals of the Golden Age Art Gallery
A great "who's who" of Golden Age heroes.

MicroComics
Offering affordable Golden Age comics on microfiche.

Comcs on CD-ROM
Offering Golden Age covers and stories on affordable CD-ROMS. Highly recommended!

Mikel Midnight Golden Age Directory
A great on-line resource for Golden Age fans. Great links.

AC Comics
Publisher of Golden Age Men of Mystery and more.

Welcome to the Letters Page, everybody! Hope you enjoyed the latest issue of Pure Excitement Comics! Here are some letters I received following the last issue:

I really enjoy the reprints and other features on your web site. Keep up the good work. How about Black Dwarf, Sgt. Spook or Frankenstein in a future issue?
You're doing great work and here's hoping others will follow in your footsteps.

"Mr. Natural"

Thanks for reading! I may feature a Frankenstein story in the near future and Sgt. Spook isn't out of the question either, but I don't have access to any Black Dwarf stories at this time.

PFE gets better with each month. Is there any chance on seeing a story with Black Cobra? What about the Clock, can we see a story with him? I've heard about both of these heroes but have never been able to see any adventures with either. Your site gives the Golden Age minor heroes a place where they won't be forgotten. Maybe because of what you are doing with PFE we will see the return of some of these obscure heroes.
Thanks for caring to give us a site like PFE, I hope more people follow your example.

Richard Croxton

Richard, I don't have access to any Black Cobra stories, but I do own some Clock appearances. However, I'm staying away from stories published by Quality Comics because they are currently owned by DC and I don't want any type of legal trouble, even tho' reprinting those stories is apparently now OK. Check with www.comicsoncdrom.com for a couple of discs featuring Clock stories (the "Feature Comics" one and at least one "Crack Comics" disc that I know of).

You have a really great site, but I was wondering, why so few heroines featured at Pure Excitement Comics? I know in the golden-age there were very few heroines, but there were a few. A couple off-hand that I've read about in Trina Robbin's excellent 'The Great Women Superheroes": Super Ann Star - I think she ran as a back-up feature along with Mighty Man in Amazing-Man comics in the 40's; Moon Girl - I think she was a copy of Wonder Woman in the 40's; The Black Cat - 40's version; Pat Patriot. I think it would be kind of a kick to read about some of the forgotten heroines of the golden-age too!
Again, great site,

Dan Lorenzen

Thanks for the praise for the site. As you probably know, I did feature an all-female line-up in one issue of Pure Excitement a while back. I can only reprint stories I own and outside of Miss Masque, I don't own many stories featuring costumes female heroes. Also, while I do own some Black Cat stories, the copyright holder is still relatively active for that character, so I'm not reprinting those stories. Whenever I get some more stories featuring female crimefighters, they'll go to the front of the line for reprinting. That's what happened with Fantomah in this issue. Hope you enjoyed the appearances by her and Miss Masque. I don't plan to feature too many jungle-type characters, by Fantomah was odd enough to include!

That's it for the letters from the last month. Sorry, no "Cover Gallery" again this issue -- watch for it to return as soon as I am even more settled into my new home. See you next month!

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