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Did I say it would be punishment?

I was wondering if you were going to be away for your vacation, Lardy. Enjoy!

As for all the guesses, none of you have it yet. I think if I gave even one more clue the answer would be got really quickly.

Miner's replies have something in common though that the real answer also has. It's not a major thing but I think its a enough to be a theme.

I will say the answer is well before the 70's and before the Gorilla Boss of Gotham City. Never forget that I specialize in all eras of comic book history.

Guesses so far (Miner's guesses in bold):

Congorilla
Batman
Wonder Woman
Robotman
Doctor Occult
Genius Jones
Jimmy Olsen
Slam Bradley
Flash
Shining Knight
Gary Concord the Ultra-Man
Zatara
The Spectre
Dr. Fate
Green Lantern
Tex Thompson
The King
Johnny Thunder
Ultra-Humanite
Roy Raymond
Vigilante
Tommy Tomorrow

And confirmed as pre-'53, which is the date of the Gorilla Boss story.

Well no one's said

Superman

yet. So I will.

Otie's third guess, should we count it, was Tommy Tomorrow and not Johnny Thunder again, which was another guess of mine.

Fixed. I wasn't sure if Cobie meant to include Johnny Thunder as having the "thing in common" (though, if so, I'd guess it was "does not wear a proper super-hero costume").

But... but... my guesses of the King and Zatara don't wear proper super-hero costumes... and I didn't get singled out for my brilliant guess-work... /cries/

Hmm... I actually just came across a possible answer (from '41), but I don't see what it has in common with the characters in question.

But... unless Cobie is being really misleading in his question and hints, this can't actually be the answer.

Curious to the guess! I'm def not being misleading though. This is actually a really cool bit of trivia I know.

It's not Supes but that's always a good guess.

Blacula, the King had a mystery man mask, correct? Anyway, not *all* of your guesss had the same thing in common with Miner's so I didn't want to tell you which ones had the same theme to make things easier.

One of you will get it shortly I think.

Well, someone needs to get the ball rolling again, so:

Scoop Scanlon

There's actually a character called Gorilla with a Human Brain , who was featured in the original Blue Beetle (which, of course, wasn't actually a DC publication).

Anyway, I'll guess Speed Saunders.

Wait - Scoop Scanlon is the main character in the back-up tale in this week's DC Legacies. Are you telling me he's a real character from DC's history?

My mind = blown! I have to go back and re-read that story with fresh eyes now.

As for another guess, I'm throwing darts in the dark now -

Hop Harrigan.

P.S. Just looked up Scoop and found this little page about him -

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Scoop_Scanlon

Seems he might be in the public domain now?

And Eryk has it! Speed Saunders it is and the story in question is from August 1937 in Detective Comics #6, well before the creation of Batman and most of the DCU as we know it. "The Mystery of the Lost Ape", I'm quite certain is the first time a DC character deals with an ape with a human brain, as in the last year I have become quite knowledgeable about Golden Age history (I wanted to say "first time in comics" which it just might be, but I'm not 100% confident with that).

You'll note this story is well before the creation of Blue Beetle at Fox Feature Publications either.

I thought about saying "it's a non-superhero" character but that might give it away too easily, but the theme I was shooting for in Miner's guesses was indeed "not a proper superhero uniform".

I also almost said "he's still active in the DCU today" which I also thought would make things too easy.

BTW, Speed Saunders is one of the more awesome pre-superhero protagonists in DC history. This awesome website by Mike Grost gives a great explanation on him and is what got me interested in the character in the first place.

You're up, Eryk!

Wow! My randomly selecting an early DC non-superhero worked!

Okay, next question.

In both the original Transformers cartoon and the original Transformers comic book, an Autobot spaceship (the Ark) crashlands on Earth roughly 4 million years ago. Which characters were on the crew of the comic book ship but not the cartoon ship when it crashed?

The Constructicons? My Transformers knowledge is pretty limited...

You're kind of on the right track, but pointed in the wrong direction.

I know everything about the TV series, but next to nothing about the comic book. Still, I'll take a guess:

The Dinobots?

The Dinobots are correct.

In the comic, as I recall, the Dinobots are actually created from Autobot crewmembers shortly after the ship's crash in response to Shockwave's coming to Earth to investigate.

In the cartoon, of course, they are built from scratch in the present time, inspired by the fossilized remains of Earth dinosaurs discovered in the volcano in which the ship had crashed.

Yay me!

I'll have a question up within the next few hours.

Okay. In honor of the original Crimson Avenger's kick-ass appearance in DCU: Legacies #1, my question is: What was the original Crimson Avengers full real name?

Lee Walter Travis