Welcome to the fourth issue of Pure Excitement Comics, your source for original Golden Age comic book reprints on the Web!

This site is based on my Golden Age comic book collecting philosophy -- there's nothing more important than the enjoyment you get from reading the stories!
I started this web 'zine because I know how hard it is for Golden Age fans to find affordable reading material. There are countless "lost" heroes from that era and I hope my site does a little to preserve their important, if forgotten, legacy. My inspiration was Golden Age Men of Mystery and the other fine books published by Bill Black at AC Comics.
I will be presenting three authentic Golden Age stories in each "issue" of Pure Excitement Comics. The stories I plan to showcase are from defunct publishers and believed to be in the public domain.* You will not be seeing stories published or owned by DC, Marvel or Archie Comics (MLJ), who maintain active ownership over their stables of characters.
I plan to stick mainly to costumed crimefighters. This month, we have a special treat -- our first "foreign" feature. The third story in this issue features "Commander Steel," a hero from a Canadian comic I picked up for 50 cents last month (worth every penny!). Also in this issue are Lightning, finishing out the stories I plan to reprint from Sure-Fire Comics no. 3, and Man O' Metal, another hero from Heroic Comics (see Rainbow Boy and Hyrdroman in issue no. 3).
I have made an effort to keep the images on this site as small (in terms of file size) as possible, yet retain their readablity. My goal is to keep the image for each page at around 100K or less. This site is best viewed at a resolution of 640x480/thousands or millions of colors, but some stories are still readable at higher resolution settings (results may vary). I apologize if the individual pages are slow to load -- but they are worth the wait!
* All stories are over 50 years old and believed to be in the public domain. Should a story appear which is not in the public domain and the holder of the copyright is opposed to its inclusion in Pure Excitement Comics, it will be immediately removed from this site upon notification. Pure Excitement Comics is a non-profit operation and does not claim the copyright to any of these stories or characters.