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Send all letters to Richard Boucher at PR-Publications@webtv.net ======================================================== Editorial ** This issue is dedicated to Clayton Moore, THE Lone Ranger...The world is a little lonelier now without him...He will be missed. ** Whew! We're finally here with the final issue of our first volume. *Sigh*, it only took an act of (fill in the blank) to get this issue to you. Between illnesses, the US postal service, Christmas, Y2K & New Years, US-Canadian customs and of course, the Canadian postal service, we've finally made it! Yeee-haah! This column will be rather lengthy as we have a lot of stuff to tell you about, so no letters this issue. As you might have noticed (if you've gone right to the bio's), this issue is double sized. That's right! 30 Golden Age characters and 6 Silver Age characters, plus one femme fatal! Quite a line up at that, don't you think? Not all of our issues will feature this many characters. When we reboot the next time around with...Volume # 2, issue numbers 1 through 12 (or 13 through 24 for those of you who like to have things that way!). And what a reboot it will be! We have so much fun stuff coming your way in the next 12 issues. So stay tuned. We are, for this issue and the next, going to a 45 day "publishing" schedule to accommodate the extra work involved in this and the up and coming issues. Maybe in a few months we will go back to a 30-day schedule. But never fear this year WILL see 12 new issues Good Guys and Gals. In addition, starting next issue, we will be re-doing the issue #'s 1 through 12 with updated information where needed. So if you missed an issue the first time out, here is your last chance (sort of!:-)to see what you missed. Another thing you will see is a reformatted look to the new volume. We have found a better way to present the "flow" of the new volume and we hope you will like it. In addition, we will also be restarting the Time Lines and Wanted sections in a new and exciting direction; again, starting next issue. So don't miss it! OK? Now onto business.... We have been running the "Design your own Golden Age" contest for a few months now and the contest ceased at the end of December. Here are the 3 winners of.... Tah DAH! A CD-ROM of issue numbers 1 through 12 of the first volume of the Good Guys and Gals of the Golden Age. The Winners are... Scott Metzger, Allen Trembone, and Scott Nesmith! We will be sending emails out to the winners shortly with details of when they can expect their CD's. Congratulations guys! For those of you who are wondering how YOU TO can have a copy of this CD ROM, never fear. We will be announcing plans next issue to let you know how you can obtain one for your very own. More on that next month. There are two other people who will be receiving this CD ROM, and they are receiving them for jumping in and proof reading all 12 of our previous issues, as well as correcting our bad grammar and our mangling of the written word! With the help of these two fine gentlemen we have what we think is the best of both worlds: pictures for you to stare at and words you can read on our great characters of old. These two people are.... Jeff Beyrent: who had graciously consented
to be our permanent proof reader and editor of the Good Guys and Gals
site starting with this very issue. Yes...that's right! When we are done with it, it will be the first ever online, interactive and illustrated database of Golden Age characters ever offered to you, the fans of that wonderful era, where fantasy and fiction met with the pictorial medium to become comics! So give these two fine good guys a warm welcome as they join Darrin and I, in becoming The FANatical 4, and we will endeavor to bring you the best work that we can produce for your enjoyment. Other bits and pieces.... From issues # 10 and 11 comes our Mystery Guest that no one got right. That character was the SECRET CIRCLE from the cover of Choice Comics # 2. Look for the Mystery Guest from # 11 in this issue, and the new Mystery Guest for # 12,and get those thoughts into us. Remember, if you guess or identify these characters correctly you win drawings of your choice from this site. So go take a look. I also want to thank all of our honorary members from the Honor Roll for contributing over 75 pieces of information on Golden Age characters over the course of 1999.You will find these folks on our Honor Roll. Take a bow, people! It is your efforts that make this site such a great pleasure to do and makes us want to keep right on going ... and going.... But don't stop! In the year 2000, we hope that we can surpass the number of entries made by these people and perpetuate this site to its final destination.... The total accumulation of every good guy and gal of the First Heroic Age of comics from around the world (1936 to 1960). Help us out. You won't be sorry you did, that's a promise. Also, a few months back we told you of a book we were eagerly anticipating. Well the book has finally arrived and what a book! The book, "BONZER", is an indispensable reference tool and a scholarly look at Australian Comics. So special is it that we have revamped our section on the AU characters to reflect the changes reading this book has brought about. This is due in no small part of one man, Mick Stone, whose index in the book is such a find, as to make it worth the price of the book itself. Take a bow Mick! We hope in the New Year to contact Mick Stone to see if he can aid us further. On top of that, one of our regular viewers (Mike Kidson of the UK) has given us a lead on the legendary Denis Gifford and we'll be asking Mr. Gifford if he too can impart some of his knowledge to us as well. So wish us luck and good health in the New Year. Enough of this for now. Go and enjoy what we have wrought! God bless you all and be good to one another. Richard Boucher ======================================================== Thanks to everyone who has written to us. We appreciate
all your input. So, please keep those letters coming! Letters will return next Issue.
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