Welcome to the 37th big issue of Pure Excitement Comics, the Web's longest running Golden Age reprint fanzine! This issue kicks off with a PEC first - a two-parter (Boy King) which is continued next month! The other two stories, starring Cat-Man and Marvo & Tito, are both reader requests. Here's an overview of this month's features:

Boy King

Character(s): Boy King
Publication: Clue Comics No. 4
Publication Date: June 1943
Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
Known Appearances: Clue Comics 1-9 & 12

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Character(s): Cat-Man
Publication: Cat-Man Comics No. 18
Publication Date: July 1943
Publisher: Et-Es-Go Magazines, Inc.
Known Appearances: Crash Comics Adventures 4 & 5 and Cat-Man Comics 1-32

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Cat-Man

Marvo & Tito

Character(s): Marvo & Tito
Publication: Lightning Comics Vol. 2 No. 6
Publication Date: April 1942
Publisher: Periodical House, Inc.
Known Appearances: Sure Fire Comics/Lightning Comics Vol. 1 No. 1 through Vol. 3 No. 1

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