The Target
and The Targeteers
CD-ROM Vol. 1

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Contents:

Rule of Terror*
Target Comics
Vol. 3 No. 1
March 1942

The Blue Door Canteen*
Target Comics
Vol. 3 No. 12
February 1943

The Battle of the Gremlins
Target Comics
Vol. 4 No. 3
May 1943

The Slap-Happy Traitor*
Target Comics
Vol. 4 No. 10
February 1944

Tri-State Limited*
Target Comics
Vol. 4 No. 11
March 1944

The Pentagon Adventure*
Target Comics
Vol. 5 No. 3
July-August 1944

Turn the Tide*
Target Comics
Vol. 5 No. 4
September-October 1944

Facing Japanese Vengeance*
Target Comics
Vol. 6 No. 1
March 1945

Axis-Smashing Trio*
Target Comics
Vol. 6 No. 2
April 1945

The Mystery of the Missing Search Lights
4 Most Comics
Vol. 5 No. 1
Winter 1945

The White Elephant*
Target Comics
Vol. 7 No. 1
March 1946

The Overly Agile Crooks*
Target Comics
Vol. 7 No. 5
July 1946

Locomotive of Death*
Target Comics
Vol. 7 No. 7
September 1946

Night Club Racket*
Target Comics
Vol. 7 No. 9
November 1946

Masterpiece of Action*
Target Comics
Vol. 7 No. 10
December 1946

At the Races*
Target Comics
Vol. 8 No. 1
March 1947

The Mummy Wakes
Target Comics
Vol. 8 No. 6
August 1947

The Cloud Clipper
Target Comics
Vol. 9 No. 8
October 1948

Bonus Material
Covers and more

*Stories originally untitled. Titles provided for reader reference.

Welcome to the first Pure Excitement Comics CD-ROM!

All proceeds from the sale of this disc will go toward purchasing more material for my web sites and future CD-ROM offerings! Thank you very much for your support!

This CD-ROM features 15 great stories which have never previously appeared in the pages of Pure Excitement Comics, as well as rescanned versions of the three Target stories which have been featured on the web site. The 18 tales were published over a period of six-and-a-half years, March 1942 to October 1948. They feature a number of different artistic styles and give a nice overview of the American culture during and after the second World War.

The following is a short biography of The Target and The Targeteers which first appeared in issue 2 of Pure Excitement Comics:

The Target was Niles Reed, a metallurgist who developed a flexible and bulletproof metal material which he used to create his yellow Target costume. In his first appearance, he became The Target to help his brother, who was being framed for murder. However, his brother was killed in the story, leaving The Target wanted by the police.

From his second appearance on, The Target was assisted by two partners known as The Targeteers. They were Dave Brown and Tom Foster. Dave and Tom wore red and blue versions of the Target costume, but who wore which actually varies from story to story, probably depending on how closely the colorist was paying attention. I even have one issue where the Target himself is wearing the red costume!

The trio were often assisted by their secretary, Tina, who figures prominently in a few of the stories reprinted here.

The Target appeared in almost 100 issues of Target Comics, beginning with Vol. 1 No. 10 and running, with some gaps at the end, through Vol. 10 No. 1. The feature also appeared in three issues of 4 Most Comics. Target stories also appeared in Blue Bolt Comics 102-105 & 110, but those are reprints of earlier Target Comics stories.

The Target
The Targeteers
Tina in Action

To begin reading the stories, just click on one of the titles in the column to the left. To see the cover for each issue, when available, be sure to check out the Bonus Material section. Please do not duplicate or distribute this CD-ROM or its contents in any way, inlcuding, but not limited to, posting the images contained within onto the internet or usenet. Feel free, however, to let your friends borrow the disc, just don't make them a copy -- it's cheap enough that they can buy their own! For more great Golden Age reprints, be sure to check out the Pure Excitement Comics web site. For more information about this disc and about other discs in this series, please write to:

Bill Nolan
121 Zion Hill Road
Salem, NH 03079

Future discs will feature a variety of characters, including The Black Terror, The Fighting Yank and Magno & Davey. Also under development are a number of discs focusing on multiple characters from a single publisher. There is currently no set release schedule -- new discs will be announced on the web site and to previous CD-ROM customers through the mailing list. To get on the Pure Excitement Comics CD-ROM mailing list, be sure to write to the above address. Mailing list members may be offered exclusive limited-edition discs in the future.

Enjoy!

* All stories are over 50 years old and believed to be in the public domain. Pure Excitement Comics does not claim the copyright to any of these stories or characters. Information for this page was found in Howard Keltner's Index to Golden Age Comic Books. There is a new edition of this great book now available. Check out the Pure Excitement Comics web site for details on how to obtain a copy. Information was also obtained from Bill Black's The Official Golden-Age Hero & Heroine Directory.