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Editorial

[Please note I am still working on the coloring for this issue. All characters are represented, but in flat colors. I will be updating them with finished colored versions as time permits. Best - Darrin]

Welcome to issue # 21 of the GOOD GUYS AND GALS of the GOLDEN AGE!

We are running a bit behind on this issue due to a few different reasons. One reason being is the set up and preparing of our new domain name and web site at www.pr-publications.com so we hope you don't mind too much that we are behind schedule. Of course this means that issue # 22 will not come out until January of 2004 now, but to make it up to you we have decided to make it up to you by featuring 22 characters that issue! Below is a list of the characters you will find in issue # 22 of Good Guys and Gals of the Golden Age.

1) Atomic Thunderbolt (Regor)
2) Atom Man <The Human Thunderbolt> (AU)
3) Captain Future (Nedor)
4) Captain Might (UK)
5) Captain Victory (Ace)
6) Captain Wonder (CA)
7) Captain Zenith (UK)
8) Doctor Diamond (Holyoke)
9) Fantax (Fr. - Bel.)
10) Hip-Knox (Hugo Gernsback)
11) Human Top (Timely)
12) Laughing Mask (Timely)
13) Marvel (MLJ)
14) Maskar (Italy)
15) Miss Green Mask (Fox)
16) Phantom Bullet (Timely)
17) Powerman (AU)
18) Purple Tigress (Fox)
19) Shock Gibson (Harvey)
20) Thunderfist (CA)
21) <The> Voice (U.S.F)
22) White Panther (Fiction House)

Issue # 22 is all drawn and color coded and is winging its way to Darrin to color and for Anthony Bernardo to edit once he gets the profiles done by yours truly. It was a blast doing them! But back to this issue at hand. We hope you will enjoy this issue as we strove very hard to make it special. For one, it is all computer colored by Darrin Wiltshire, and that takes Darrin a bit of time to do, since he just finished computer coloring our MLJ Special issue, which of course made him have to work twice as hard and fast to get this issue's coloring done as well, another reason we are a bit tardy! Also Darrin colored our entrance page with art by D.S. Ellis, and we think its a smashing cover, don't you? You can now access all of our issues and specials from this website (www.pr-publications.com) and we hope you will book mark this address for future use. We think that this will make getting to our various publications that much easier. This issue is a bit different than most other issues that we have done in the past. How so may you ask? Well we often get letters from you the viewer letting us know where we can find other Golden Age characters on the web. The two sites most often cited are "The Golden Years" by Steve Rogers, and Bill Nolan's "Pure Excitement Comics", of which, both are excellent sites that we have known about for a long long time. But to put this constant referral to rest, we decided to offer the best of those sites characters that have yet to be features here at Good Guys and Gals of the Golden Age. So, if you already know of these characters, here is our take on them, and for added enjoyment for those who have not seen a story of these great characters, we have added a link in our "Current Copyright" section, indicating where the stories can be found. So you can go and read the story and compare them to what we've done. We managed to get most of them into this issue, and next issue should wrap up the majority of them, so consider this a "rounding up" of loose ends. We will revisit this theme in Vol. # 3, next year, and will also include the characters found on our CD ROM reprint series "GREATS of the GOLDEN AGE of COMICS" that have yet to be featured here on Good Guys and Gals of the Golden Age. You can get a sample of what can be found on them, the reprint CD Roms, on our sister website, Greats of the Golden Age of Comics, which is listed on our main domain web page. Also still up and running is our TIMELY and MLJ specials. Go check them out as well. Take care and God Bless, I hope you all have a safe and happy holidays, we will see you in January. Bye 4 now.

Richard Boucher

Your Narrators this issue
Captain Nightmare & Mr. Knight

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Also, see full-size versions of Captain Nightmare and Mister Knight by David Ellis!