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Editorial

Hi All !

    Well here we are, back with # 7. It's always good to see another issue completed. A few things and I'll get out of the way.

    1) The poll for the company you'd like to see spotlighted will run another month with the results posted in August. So far it seems that MLJ is in the lead with Timely right behind them. Fox and Quality seem destined to tie for third, with Fawcett coming in last.
What! No Captain Marvel fans out there?
    2) Our "Mystery Guest" from last month was not found out yet, so we're going to run him this month too, along with a new one. If no one gets him this month I will announce who he is and where he can be found. What's that? Give us a clue? OK! Gerber photo journal vol.#1, look in the "C" section. He's pictured with an animal. Or for those who don't have Gerber, use the same info for your Overstreet price guide. He's listed there too.
    3) A special thanks to our newest honor role member, James Ludwig, a truly "good guy" for supplying us with so many wonderful pages of artwork and stories. Way to go James! And an "honorable" tip of the hat to Jeff and Michael (you know who you are), for their continued support towards this goal of ours. Thanks guys. And
    4) To Darrin Wiltshire, the unsung hero of this site of ours. Without Darrin, you'd be staring at blank pages people, so don't forget him, ok?

    Finally, a reminder of why we do what we do. Simply put, we want to SAVE the past for all of us to enjoy in the future. As Golden & Silver Age book prices skyrocket on and on, and with the ever destructive passage of time, more and more of these old comic books are lost to most of us forever. Help us out in saving at least part of this history, and that is exactly what it is, HISTORY.

    Thanks one and all for your continued support and help, we here at Squadron Central do appreciate it. Take care, God Bless, and be good to one another.

Bye now!
Richard Boucher

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Thanks to everyone who has written to us. We appreciate your praise and input.
Keep those letters coming!
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Dear Darrin,

    I've been a fan of Good Guys and Gals since issue #2. I've had great deal of fun with your site and have greatly enjoyed my on going correspondence with Richard.

    Richard was kind enough to supply your E-mail address when I mentioned that I would like to tell you personally how much I've enjoy and appreciate the work that the two of you have put into Good guys and Good gals. It has fast become one of my very favorite comic book related sites on the net.

Thank you, Darrin.

Take care and Keep 'em flying.

Jeff Beyrent

Hi Jeff,

    It's always great to hear from those who are fans of our site. Even though I view my input as minimal compared to Richard's, I just love working on GG&G and am grateful to Richard for letting me be a part of what is his pet project. We have so many great things planned for the following months and I know you won't be disappointed, so stay tuned. And thanks for writing, it is appreciated.

All the best,
Darrin Wiltshire

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    Holy Moley! I forgot that it was the 1st of the month and time for a new edition of Good Guys and Gals. Thanks for the new lineup. I was pleased to see some well known GA characters in the list (Torch, Hourman, Human Bomb, Crimson Avenger). Airmale is definitely on the short list for goofiest GA hero, but it's that goofy quality that makes the Golden Age appealing to me.

    BTW how did you guys get into the Golden Age scene anyway? And what do you think accounts for the Golden Age's appeal?

Best,
Anthony Bernardo

Hi Anthony,

    Good to here from you,and thanks for the kind words on # 6. Even though that issue featured more "well known" good guys, we always try to balance out the issue with the lesser known and obscure heroes and heroines. You haven't seen nothing yet when it comes to goofy good guys, there is more to come!

    Hmm, how'd I get started with my Golden Age obsession? Well, first off, being a child growing up in the '60's, I was privy to a good deal of the Silver Age, with my first comics being JLA #38, and Adventure Comics, the 2nd part of the Starfinger story (1st app. and issue # I don't remember off hand) and I was hooked on comics for the next several years. By the end of '69, I had dropped comics for "other" pursuits. But in '78-'79, I got back into comics, and after an effort to recompile my silver age books (plus those I'd missed the first time around), I drifted into Golden Age books, as some of my first comic book memories were of the JSA, the Showcase Dr. Fate/Hourman and Spectre runs (by Murphy Anderson) and the Brave & Bold Starman/Black Canary duo of books (more Murphy Anderson) Archie's "Too Many Super Heroes", where they revived (if briefly) some of their GA characters, and the giant Marvel reprint G.A. books like Fantasy Masterpiece and Marvel Super Heroes, which gave me the realization of an era prior to my own. A friend of mine owned a comic book store and was in the process of selling it to someone else, so he made me an "offer I couldn't refuse" on all his GA books (plus he was a band mate of mine too!), so all of a sudden I had about a 150 GA books!

    After that between 1980 and '84, I bought about another 100 books or so from various places, but a divorce soon would separate me & my books, and this is where my "drawings" started from. Seeing I couldn't (at that time) copy the books in some form, I decided to draw (and I didn't know how to...), what were then, my favorite GA heroes and such. So with some brief explanations on the characters, along with coloring codes I made up, the drawings were to be the basis of what you see today here @ GG&G! Although what you get now are present day drawings as my "ability" to draw, has greatly improved over the years (thank God!:-), so from that adversity comes triumph, to paraphrase someone else...

    So you now have the story of how I began my idea for this site, and my long time love & affection for that long ago almost forgotten period, which I did not want to see fade into the "obscurity of oblivion" (musical reference #2). Let us not forget if it was not for Darrin Wiltshire's drive to do this site, none of this would be here today, and a thanks is also due to Bill Nolan (a great guy!) for bringing me and Darrin together again (another long story!) so together, we could bring to you those great good guys and gals of old, for all to remember and cherish forever, and "not fade away..." (another musical quote!).

    Take care, and get ready for July's Patriots of America, issue # 7, it promises to be real fun, and colorful too!

Richard

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Dear Friends,

    I 'd like to know how I can see the other numbers of your web magazine regarding the characters of the golden age.

Truly yours,
Corrado Sesselego

Hi Corrado,

    Well at the moment #'s 1 through 5 will not be seen until next year when we start Volume # 2. With Volume # 2, issue #1, we will reprint Vol. #1, issue #1 along with it, and it will include updates and/or corrections. So stick around and you will eventually get to see it all again. I hope this helps answer your question. And thanks for showing an interest in our site.

Richard Boucher