Pure Excitement Comics is maintained by Bill Nolan.
Vol. 1 No. 29
January 2001
In This Issue:
Contents Page
Toreador
Billy West
Triggers
Other issues!
Next Month:
Some more old stuff, but probably not more Western stuff for a while!
Bill Nolan's
Other Pages:
CD-ROMs!
CD-ROMs featuring more great reprints! Buy them, please! (They're cheap!)
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:
Golden Years
A great cover site now featuring great on-line Golden Age reprint magazines!
AC Comics
Publisher of Golden Age Men of Mystery and more. Now with a great on-line store!
Golden Agers
A great affiliate Yahoo Club where Golden Age fans can get together on-line.
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 Golden Age Heroes Directory
A great new page developing profiles on all Golden Age heroes!
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.
Captain Comics
Home of the weekly comic book columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service
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Welcome to the Letters Page,
everybody! Let me take an opportunity here to promote some great new Golden Age
reprint CD-ROMs offered by the fine folks over at "The Good Guys and Gals of the Golden Age
Art Gallery." There are currently three CD-ROMs available, featuring a slew of great
Golden Age stories. For more information on the CDs, which I highly recommend,
click here. Also,
I hope you enjoyed this somewhat different issue of Pure Excitement Comics!
I promised one of my long-time fans that I would get another Western hero into the 'zine,
and another reader requested some war material, so this issue's contents sort of meet the
needs of both. Here are some letters I received during the past month:
Hi Bill, Received and read
your 4th CD - great stuff, just like the other three. I like the format of having
two or three different characters represented. The more I see of the Nedor characters
the more I appreciate them. Also read Issue 28 - I'd never heard of either Stardust
or Titan. I see what you mean about Stardust - really over the top. Keep up the good
work and I look forward to your next issue and next CD.
Cheers,
Dennis
Dennis, despite what I wrote
in my original, private response to your e-mail, my next CD-ROM will NOT be a
"Double Feature" focusing on Magno & Davey and Lightning (as I have announced in
several different places). I recently completed the scanning for my fifth CD-ROM,
which will be another "Super Special" featuring 15 different characters (in over
20 stories). I was planning to work on the Double Feature, but got swept up in
scanning a variety of comics, so I decided to focus on the Super Special. I still
need to write the code, so it might be a couple of weeks before the CD is available.
I will eventually get to Magno & Davey and Lightning, but I might actually do
a Nedor CD next, similar in format to the Super Specials, with 15 or more characters
featured. Nedor sees to be a very popular publisher with my readers.
Yo! Love Prescription for
Excitement, long may it rule. Is there any chance we'll be seeing any Uncle Sam stories
and more war related stories? I think another issue focusing on patriotic heroes would be
fine idea as I thoroughly enjoyed the last one.
Keep up the good work.
Chris Murray
Well, Chris, I don't currently own
any Uncle Sam material, so that's not on the agenda for the immediate future, but I will
see what I can do about more patriotic heroes in the future. The only problem is that
my Golden Age comic collection is somewhat limited, and I don't have a great variety of
patriotic hero material to choose from. I currently have some great Nedor stuff I could
use (the Fighting Yank, the Liberator and the American Eagle), but beyond that my choices
are limited. I'll see what I can win on eBay in the coming months (nobody bid against
"bnolan"). Maybe I should have saved Yankee Boy for a special patriotic heroes issue!
Also, I hope you enjoyed the Triggers feature in this issue, since you did request more
war-related stories.
I like the three stories you put in,
1. Yank and Doodle
2. Mr. Risk
3. The Black Rider
Where do you live and have you got any more old comics?
Hope you answer my E-mail letter SOON.
Randy
Randy, I'm always glad to hear from
fans who have really enjoyed my work. As for your favorites, Yank & Doodle have already
appeared a couple of times, so it will be a while before they appear again. Mr. Risk is
always a possiblilty, but I don't own any other Black Rider stories beyond that one
already featured. I own a small, but interesting collection of Golden Age comics, most of
which star the lesser-known characters I feature here. For the more popular characters, I
stick with reprint material such as DC's archives, CD-ROMs from www.comicsoncdrom.com, and
microfiche from MicroComics. I live in the snowy wastelands of New England.
In P.E.C. #27, you got me interested
in the Marksman. What I liked about him was that not only was he a costume hero, but a full
time double agent for the Allies.
I hope to see more of this hero in
future issues of P.E.C.
Richard Croxton
Richard, I do own one other
Marksman story, so the character may be featured again someday! [Richard, by the way,
is the Editor of a great fanzine, which all Golden Age fans should be reading, called
"Tales from the Attic." The fanzine includes a number of Golden Age reprints each
month, as well as reviews, fan fiction, and other great articles! For purchasing
information, e-mail Richard at RJCroxton@aol.com.]
That's it for the letters
page this month. Be sure to check back next month for three more great reprints!
And just a reminder, my four great CD-ROMs are still available (and the fifth
will be available very soon). More information can be found at the CD-ROMs link
in the column to the left. See you next month! And, oh yeah, I should be a
new father by the time the next issue comes out!
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In the gallery this month is the cover of Target Comics vol. 3 no. 2.
I apologize for the small image (I swiped this from an eBay auction I was outbid
on), but I thought this cover would be of special interest to long-time fans of
Pure Excitement Comics. If you look closely, you will notice it features
Ragsy from the Chameleon strip in his "Kid Tyrant" outfit from the story way back
in issue one of this web'zine! I wasn't sure if "Kid Tyrant" had made any more
appearances, but this shows he at least made the cover of the next consecutive
issue of Target Comics. It would have been great if I could have featured
this story on the web site, but the darn auction ended in the early morning hours
well past my bedtime!
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