Pure Excitement Comics is maintained by Bill Nolan.

Vol. 1 No. 30
February 2001

In This Issue:

Contents Page

Blue Circle

The Menace

Beau Brummell

Other issues!


Next Month:

Three great Golden Age stories!


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 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

Welcome to the Letters Page, everybody! Two great announcements this issue! First, I'm a new dad! My daughter, Ellen, was born Jan. 30! Second, and of more interest to you comic fans, my fifth CD-ROM is now available! It's the second Pure Excitement Comics Super Special, which is set up like a larger version of the on-line web`zine. For more details on the contents and ordering info, check out the CD-ROM link in the column to the left. Here are some letters I received during the past month:

Hi Bill! I just want to say PEC 29 was another great issue! I've never been a fan of western stuff but this issue is changing my mind somewhat. Just like past issues have changed my mind about jungle stories. I'm also pleased to learn that you're working on another Super Special. I've loved all of your CDs but that one was my favorite. Also, a quick note to Randy: A VERY special Yank & Doodle story is in All-Amazing Comics #6 which should be online by the time this is posted. I'm sure you can give him directions to get to my site.

Cheers,
Steve

P.S.-I'm 110% in favor of a Nedor Super Special for your 6th CD!!!

Steve, glad to hear you enjoyed the Western-themed issue. I don't buy a lot of books featuring Western characters, but I do own some, so I thought it might be fun to feature a few stories on the site. Also, anyone intersted in checking out other great reprints on-line are urged to click on over to Steve's site, Golden Years, the first related link in the column to the left. And Steve, as you've no doubt heard by now, the second Super Special is now available! And don't worry, I'm already 75 percent done the scanning for my sixth CD-ROM - the Nedor Super Special! Here's a sample of the characters featured on that CD: the American Crusader (origin story), Doc Strange, Miss Masque, the Liberator, the Ghost, Capt. Future, Spectro, the Scarab, Mystico, the Phantom Detective, the Four Comrades, the Commando Cubs, the Woman in Red, the Fighting Yank, and the Black Terror, along with five stories previously featured on the web site starring the American Eagle, Pyroman, Wonderman, the Grim Reaper, and the Oracle. Give me a few weeks to finish this one up (or longer), it's tough to get around to scanning when there's an infant in the house!

Dear Bill: First I would like to tell you how much I enjoy "Pure Excitement Comics." Although I've liked just about every strip you've presented so far, I think that "Chuck Magnon, the Immortal Man" is my favorite. It was a good natured and cleverly written story. Too bad that it was Chuck's only appearance. I also liked your latest effort, the Western-themed issue. The mixture of the aviation and Western genres in "Triggers" reminded me of one of my favorite childhood TV shows, "Sky King." I suspect that the Triggers character may have been inspired, at least visually, by "Smiling Jack," a once popular newspaper strip character. Billy West was also fun. Believe it or not, the writer(s) actually had me going for a while as to whether or not "Dude" was a bad guy! "The Toreador" was OK, but certainly no threat to "The Cisco Kid" (another old-time TV favorite of mine).

Mark Pankratz

Mark, thanks for the kind words about my web site. It's always great to hear from fans. Chuck Magnon is one of my favorites as well, and others often mention the story in e-mails to me. I'm also glad to hear you enjoyed the Western-themed issue as much as you did. I wasn't sure how my regular readers would react to such non-costumed material. Glad to see it was enjoyed.

Thanks for the great Briefer Frankenstein comics! I love these, wish somebody would publish a book collection of them. I just discovered your page while looking for Briefer info. Great old comics - I hope you will continue with the Frankenstein. I'd also love to see some of Jack Cole's (under the name Ralph Johns) one-page humor comics, like "Wun Cloo" and "Burp the Twerp".
Thanks again,

Shane Glines

Shane, I'm always glad to hear from other Frankenstein fans! Frankenstein, by the way, was one of the features on my first Pure Excitement Comics Super Special CD-ROM. I only own one other Frankenstein story which I haven't reprinted yet, but it suffers from being the end of a multi-part story (I think so anyway, based on my reading of it). It features Frankenstein under the control of the Nazis (in a full Nazi uniform, no less) because he has lost his memory for some reason. I may feature it in the future, but I like to stay away from multi-part stories when I'm unable to reprint all the parts. I haven't thought about featuring any one-page humor strips, but I'll keep your request in mind if I come across any of interest.

That's it for the letters page this month. Be sure to check back next month for three more great reprints!

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