The Fighting Yank
CD-ROM Vol. 1

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Contents:

Dr. Fantom's Lycans*
Startling Comics
No. 18
December 1942

The Blitz Nightmare*
The Fighting Yank
No. 5
September 1943

The Missing Micro-Film*
The Fighting Yank
No. 5
September 1943

The Gremlin
The Fighting Yank
No. 5
September 1943

The Case of the Extra Nazi Prisoner
America's Best Comics
No. 14
June 1945

The Invisible Enemy*
America's Best Comics
No. 15
October 1945

Undersea Island
America's Best Comics
No. 16
January 1946

The Flaming Snow*
Startling Comics
No. 39
May 1946

The Death Beam*
America's Best Comics
No. 20
December 1946

The Tormentor
America's Best Comics
No. 21
March 1947

The Indian Conspiracy*
The Fighting Yank
No. 20
May 1947

The Island Paradise Slavers*
The Fighting Yank
No. 20
May 1947

The Captured Scientists*
The Fighting Yank
No. 20
May 1947

The Return of Fingers
The Fighting Yank
No. 27
January 1949

Double Trouble
The Fighting Yank
No. 27
January 1949

Taxi Terror
The Fighting Yank
No. 27
January 1949

The Fighting Yank's Ancestor in
Patriots on Parade
The Fighting Yank
No. 27
January 1949

Bonus Material
Covers and more

*Stories originally untitled. Titles provided for reader reference.

Welcome to the second Pure Excitement Comics CD-ROM!

This CD-ROM features 15 great stories which have never previously appeared in the pages of Pure Excitement Comics, as well as a rescanned version of the Fighting Yank story which was featured on the web site and another bonus tale featuring the Fighting Yank's Ancestor. The 17 tales were published over a period of approximately six years, December 1942 to January 1949. They feature a number of different artistic styles and illustrate the evolution of the character throughout the Golden Age.

The following is a short biography of the Fighting Yank which first appeared in issue 10 of Pure Excitement Comics:

The Fighting Yank is probably the second-most popular character (after the Black Terror) from the Nedor/Standard line of comics.

The Fighting Yank was Bruce Carter III. He possessed a special cloak which once belonged to his Colonial ancestor, Bruce Carter I. The cloak gave him superhuman strength and invulnerability. However, if things got too bleak for our hero, the spirit of his ancestor would always appear to pull him out of danger's way.

The Fighting Yank utilized his powers to combat a variety of foes, from common criminals to supervillains to enemy agents. He was assisted in his efforts by his girlfriend, Joan.

The Fighting Yank appeared in Startling Comics 10-49, America's Best Comics 9, 11, and 13-25, and The Fighting Yank 1-29.

Fighting Yank
Ancestor
Joan

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. The Bonus Material section also includes the covers of a handful of other comics featuring the Fighting Yank (size and quality varies). Please do not duplicate or distribute this CD-ROM or its contents in any way, including, 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
williamnolan@yahoo.com

Future discs will feature a variety of characters, including the Black Terror 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.

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 The Official Golden-Age Hero & Heroine Directory by Bill Black, which is available from AC Comics.