Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The NON-LEGION comics trivia thread!!! Round two

Here\'s the page I used for reference, btw. Pretty sure your dude's not on there.

Silly Wikias!

Well, there's a few people that haven't been guessed, but unless I'm missing something obvious, no one is jumping out at me as the answer.

So, I'll try... Foley of the Fighting 5th?

Not Foley, who is also a unique feature. I feel like you're on the cusp.

Well, I've looked at every issue of All-Star Western and Western Comics on the GCD, and I'm not coming up with it.

I give up.

There's one more western title from DC in the 50's that started as a superhero title and became a war title. Therein lies your answer.

And the answer is Minstrel Maverick.

Yessir.

Running in All-American Western (previously All-American Comics starring Green Lantern, the Atom and others, and later All-American Men at War starring Gunner & Sarge), Minstrel Maverick was a little known back-up feature with very little written about him on the Internet these days.

He's got a groovy write up somewhere online, I'll link to it when I'm not on my phone.

I'd completely forgotten about All-American Western, but once I looked at it, it popped right out!

He's actually on that list I linked as "Hank Hayes (New Earth)"! Damn, that Wikia site's a MESS! The "New Earth" part implies he's appeared or been referenced in current 'official' post-IC DC continuity as that site works. Didn't even click on it because Cobie said he's pre-Silver Age or what-not. Oh, wellz....

(Is it possible he's made a cameo in Jonah Hex's current book at some point to get the "New Earth" designation?)

I'm pretty sure the wikipedia site is wrong. I've been aware of Minstrel Maverick for several years as one of those obscure characters I'm fascinated by. So I would have noticed if he showed up in Hex (which would have only been as a background cameo) and I even checked James Robinson's Starman for a possible mention of him. He's about as obscure as they get!

I first learned about him through the "Mike's Amazing World" website of DC indexes here: http://www.dcindexes.com/database/comic-details.php?comicid=2160. A few years later I found this cool write-up: http://www.dcindexes.com/database/comic-details.php?comicid=2160

I don't own any comics with him in them, but I want to! (As far as I know, he only ever appeared in All-American Western).

Next Question:

What character received powers as part of a bet between Prince Highness and Prince Lowness as to whether an honest person would be corrupted by power?

I can confirm he didn't appear in either All-Star Western or Western Comics!

The Terrific Whatzit

That's right. Your turn, Miner.

That was one of the few questions on this thread that I not only knew, but I knew that I knew, if you know what I mean.

The murder of Fred Thorpe launched the career of which crimefighter?

Oooh I feel like I should know this one -

Robotman (the original)?

One of my favorites: Detective Chimp.

The mighty Chimp is correct.

Good job, Cobes. Over to you.

When the X-Men became a reprint title / went on hiatus at the end of the Silver Age, they would sporadically guest star in various Marvel series (notably the Hulk and Marvel Team-Up). Of course, The Beast would have a solo feature in Amazing Adventures and join the Avengers.

What other member of the X-Men besides Beast had solo adventures in the interim between the Silver Age and the All-New, All-Different era? And because it's pretty easy to just guess the 6 possible answers: which legendary comic book creator randomly was the writer?

Ps- for extreme bragging rights, bonus to anyone who knows which titles the stories appeared in.

Not a Marvel reader so random guess time -

Angel by Bob Kane

That's a really excellent guess! Not totally correct though!

Angel with... er... Jerry Siegel?

And actually that is quite correct! And I can tell you and Blacula felt they indeed very random but in doing so gave the two best guesses possible!

Of all people, legendary Jerry Siegel came to Marvel after his final falling out with DC at the close of the Silver Age. But his stay was brief in the fullest extent of the word: he wrote exactly 4 back-up stories. I wish I knew more about why he came to Marvel and then why he didn't stay (though by 1970 he was getting older).

Of all things, three of those back-ups were original stories featuring the Angel after X-Men was on hiatus. The first two appeared in Ka-Zar, which was a 3 issue reprint stories of Ka-Zar's first adventures in Daredevil, Spider-Man and X-Men. Weirdly enough, these reprints had original material back-ups first of Hercules and then of the Angel (pre-dating the Beast's solo stories, perhaps as Marvel thought the famous Golden Age name might draw in readers?). Even weirder, Ka-Zar actually was having new adventures in Astonishing Tales as a co-lead rather than the Ka-Zar comic.

The last Siegel Angel story ended up as a back-up in Marvel Tales, the long-running Spider-Man reprint series, where it may have been the only original material in the title's 20+ year history. The move was because Ka-Zar had only been in enough stories to justify 3 reprint issues.

I knew Siegel had done work for other companies at the end of the sixties/early seventies, and I was thinking he'd done a bit of Marvel, but, beyond that, it was pretty much a guess!