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

original Daily Star editor George Taylor?

I'll try... Chuck Dawson?

George Taylor had a gap of 37 years and, to the best of my knowledge, never appeared in another company's comics

Chuck Dawson, once he went away, never did come back... BUT... I will say that the reprint comics which later contained Chuck also contained the character in question.

Scoop Scanlon?

That's the one.

Scoop Scanlon ran in the first 13 issues of Action Comics up until summer of '39, not reappearing in DC outside of a reprint until last year in the first issue of DC Universe: Legacies (with the possible exception of a Batman story in Worlds Finest in 1942, though it's bit dubious as to whether that was the same guy).

Where he did appear, however, was in the pages of the comics of two other publishers (Et-Es-Go and Holyoke) in new stories by his creator Bill Ely. Apparently when Ely left DC he just "took" Scanlon with him. I would have thought that DC would have frowned on that, but maybe there was an agreement, or maybe it was just under their radar.

In any case, as of last year, he's back as a DC character. Maybe we'll see him again in another 70 years.


Next question to EDE.

What Star City-based villain once built a machine to eliminate 90% of the human population?

Eden Corps?

Nope.

(Or at least I hope they didn't try the same plot. Anyway I'm looking for a single individual rather than a group.)

Count Vertigo?

Nope.

Hint: This question was somewhat inspired by Ex's question, in that the character in question is notable for having re-appeared after a long absense, though not nearly as long as Scoop Scanlon!

Clock King?

Not the Clock King!

Hint: This character was absent for roughly twenty-five years before making a re-appearance in the last few years!

Vengence?

I don't even know who that is, so no!

Shado?

Nope!

Hint: While the character was based in Star City, it's not someone you would immediately think of as a Green Arrow villain!

Okay, let's try this hint:

The character was created by Kurt Busiek.

The Construct?

Paragon? If so, where has he re-appeared?

Apparently he's appeared during the past couple of years in Superman titles (according to Wikipedia), and, yes, he's the right answer!

Paragon's original storyline involved trying to exterminate the roughly 90% of the worlds population that he considered inferior, so that only the top tier of humanity would survive and breed a superior race of humans, or something like that.

He was based in Star City (Black Canary first encounters him, but Clark and Hal are also visiting Ollie there at the beginning of the story).

The issue featuring him was one of the most memorable JLA stories of my childhood. Always loved his outfit!

That JLA issue with Paragon's first appearance is one of the faves from my childhood too EDE!

Great cover!

http://www.comics.org/issue/38407/cover/4/

Who wouldn't want to know who Paragon is after a cover like that?

Great issue too. Cool to see Black Canary in such a prominent role and the opening (Clark, Ollie and Hal sitting around in their civies having a drink and a chat) blew my young mind. I thought all super-heroes did was run around saving people. I loved that human element Busiek added here!

Did Paragon really make his return in Superman recently though? I seem to remember reading Kurt saying he wasn't able to use him during his run. Would love to proved wrong though. Did Wikipedia say which issue he appeared in EDE? I want it!

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My question -

Which Batman villain had a brief supporting role in Neil Gaiman's Sandman?

Looks like he's at least in Superman #674 and #675, with kind of a crappy new outfit that lets him store powers he's absorbed.

^ Cool! Thanks EDE! Great to see him again. Agreed on the outfit though. Where are the puffy sleeves?!?

I guess I was thinking of someone else that I was hoping to see return that I remember being disappointed to read that Kurt never got around to bringing back. Maybe it was Maxima?

How brief? Are we talking about a one-issue cameo? I'm pretty sure both Two-Face and the Mad Hatter (IIRC) appeared in issue # 5 or so, when Dream goes to Doctor Destiny in Arkham Asylum to get his ruby.