Pure Excitement Comics is maintained by Bill Nolan.

Vol. 1 No. 36
August 2001

In This Issue:

Contents Page

The Chameleon

Dynamo

Flag-Man

Pirate Prince

Golden Eagle

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Related Links:

Golden Years
A great cover site also featuring great on-line Golden Age reprint magazines!

goldcomics.com
A fantastic site featuring MLJ reprints.

Heroic Comics
Another great source for Golden Age reprints! Includes stories from nine of the first 12 issues of that great title.

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! I've recently discovered another great source for reprints on-line -- be sure to check out the "goldcomics.com" link in the column to the left for some MLJ reprints. Here are a couple of the letters I received during the past month:

GREAT issue Bill! Best one since #25 (not that any in between were ever bad...) It was great to see the origin of Blue Streak. I have the next issue of Headline and I always wondered about him. Some really great art in that feature, but it was strange how they went from Jim Dare to Blue Streak without ever showing him coming up with the idea. Beyond swearing revenge and staying up all night in his trailer there was no clue. Certainly not typical.
The Hood was one of the better features I've seen. For some reason, maybe just his costume, he reminded me of the Golden Age Atom. The whole story seemed to have that feel to it (only more bizarre), and I absolutely loved it! Hopefully the Hood will return again someday! (Either in your pages or in mine...)
Finally, my favorite of the issue, Frankenstein! This feature never lets me down, and I could tell by the cover this was to be particularly good. I was right! This was the best Frankenstein I've read to date, and it's left me with nothing else to say but wow! They don't make stories like this anymore.
Also, a few requests for future issues or CDs: 1)The Cadet; 2)Manhunter (Quality); 3)Cat-Man; 4)Daredevil (I noticed you won no. 5 on eBay recently...); 5)Crimebuster.
With that, let me just say that I'm looking forward to the anniversary issue, and the return of Kid Tyrant! Yours is the only book out there that keeps me waiting all month!

Steve

Steve, thanks for such a great letter! Glad you enjoyed all the features last issue and I hope this month's oversized special didn't disappoint you in any way. I also really enjoyed the bizarre aspect of the Hood story. Unfortunately, that's the only Hood story I own right now, maybe you will get to feature one on your site one day [Editor's note - that's the Golden Years link in the column to the left, in case anyone didn't know.] I'm also pretty much tapped out of Frankenstein stories. I'll see what I can do in the coming months to address some of your requests. The Daredevil story from the comic I won (which turned out to be issue no. 4 with the cover of no. 5 glued onto it!) has a little bit of damage on page one which would require "reconstructive surgery." I own a later issue as well, so I will see what I can do. Maybe the origin of the Cadet will someday grace these pages...

Dear Bill: After months of following your site "Pure Excitement Comics", I just had to stop "lurking" and write to say that you are doing a FANTASTIC job!
First off, the beauty of your site is its simplicity: it navigates incredibly well! It reads just like a comic, maybe better in the fact that you can jump to wherever you want whenever you want. No other site that deals with the same subject matter (comic books, golden age or not) comes close. Have a look at the "competition" and compare getting from point A to B.
Secondly, you are doing the internet community a great public service: locating and giving a public home to pieces of popular culture for all to see. If recent changes in American copyright law hadn't gone through, who knows what other gems you'd present (the Quality line comes immediately to mind). Are the Street & Smith Shadow comics in the public domain? I know the pulps are (www.shadowpdf.50megs.com comes to mind).
Lastly, I too have always considered myself more a reader than a collector. Therefore I understand (and obviously concur) that your "vast web empire" is a labor of love (ooh, I remember buying Police Comics #101 at a flea market when I was, what?, 12...).
Anyway, thanks a million for doing what you're doing, keep doing it! and best of luck in your future endeavors! And my regards to Mrs and Baby Nolan!

Sincerely,
Grey Tomorrow
Art Director
Frame By Frame Italia

Grey: Thanks for all the nice words about my web site. I'm not a computer expert, so I went for a simple design which I could handle and I think it works well. Glad to hear you like it. I have used a few Quality stories on my site and the guy at www.comicsoncdrom.com sells some Quality based CD-ROMs, but I do stay away from the characters which are still active at DC today. I'm afraid I don't know about the status of the Shadow comics, so I cannot answer that question. Thanks again for reading and for the great letter!

That's it for the letters page this month. Be sure to check back next month for some more great reprints, possibly addressing some of the requests I've received over the past three years!

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