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

Tasmanian Devil is a good guess, but incorrect. Flux is not the correct answer either.

It is Ultraa, Earth-Prime's first superhero.

that's right! forgot about him.

According to what I read when double checking my memory, after Crisis his orgin got retconned. He is now from Maxima's home planet.

(Since it will take too long to dig up that issue of JLA to ask the question I was intending to next, I'll save that one for later and ask a different one instead.)

Everyone knows DC is a suit-happy company and that once upon a time there was some legal friction between the Superman and Captain Marvel properties.

But did you know that in the 70s they also sued the Filmation cartoon company to make them stop airing two cartoons about characters that they deemed to be too similar to two of DC's own characters.

Please name those two DC characters (and super-bonus points if you also know the names of the cartoons that were pulled).

I'll guess that one is Shazam (like the Shazan genie)? No idea who the other one is, but I'll make a wild guess and say...Elasti-Girl.

Would it be the Atom and Plastic Man Man? The Filmation characters were Microwoman and Superstretch, part of the Tarzan and the Super 7 show.

You are on the right track Quis and one of your answers is correct -

DC did indeed sue Filmation and get them to pull the Superstretch cartoon because of its lead character's alleged similarity to Plastic Man... but Microwoman wasn't part of the suit. I guess being female made her different enough to the Atom for the DC men in suits.

So that leaves one more character for someone to get...

By the way - not Shazam or Elasti-Girl.

Well in looking up to make sure I got the names of Superstretch and microwoman correct, I was reminded of Manta & Moray whose origin is very similar if not exact as for Aquaman and Dolphin respectively. I would say that DC sued on Manta rather than Moray as Dolphin is such a minor character in comparison to Aquaman.

And that was the other one. Manta was too similar to Aquaman for the DC suits to allow.

Over to you Quis.

I suppose asking which character of the Super 7 Marvel sued over would just be giving the question back to Blacula.


Who was the director of the Midway Museum before Katar Hol?

Mavis Trent?

Nope, she was the museum's diorama artist.

Hint: as far as I know the former director has never had an on panel scene.

no guesses?

I think an obscure Hawkman (non)supporting character who's never actually appeared on panel and maybe had at most two mentions in a comic from about 50 years ago might be too tough even for a DC Trivia Buff like me, Quis.

Was it Ed Emmet?

Yes it was. Commissioner Emmett's brother. COmmissioner Emmett tells the Hawks that his brother is retiring as director so Katar can take his place.

I had to do a bit of research for that one. I found it under wikipedia's listing on Midway City.

Another question as soon as I think of one...

OK, here we go...sort of a Fantastic Four question...

Who was John Harkness?

Agatha's father?

Nope...

If memory serves, this was an alias Steve Englehart once used, but I can't recall why.

Thank you so much for getting me off the hook, Miner. Yes, that is correct. SE didn't like some of the editorial decisions, and he used "John Harkness" on work that he wanted distanced from him. Take it good sir...

You are most welcome.

I'll need some time to think something up. Be back tomorrow...