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

^ Thanks guys. I'm glad you resisted the temptation to spoil. It was fun posing a question about a topic that most people seemed familiar with but just couldn't get the right answer to.

I was definitely running out of ideas for clues though (I think I was only about 1 clue away from saying "His initials are B.S." ). And with Uni starting again next week I needed this question answered soon - which is why I amended the older clues to make them a lot easier to identify him.

I'd love to hear from Gaiman about why he chose to use that particular character in his story that way. I couldn't find any info online. Does anyone have Absolute Sandman? Is Black Spider mentioned in the annotations in there (if they have them?)? Or know of any Sandman annotation websites that might mention it?

the revised clues did inspire an epiphany - the 70s descriptions and connecting it to Lyta's date. Black Spider had once been a bat-villain I'd really liked way back when, but had forgotten about until now.

So with that epiphany, I did a quick google to see that there had been more than one Black Spider, and see the name Eric Needham (which I wasn't 100% sure was the Sandman character I was thinking of. It sounded familiar, but I wasn't sure) made me comfortable guessing. I didn't look to see if all the other details fit.

great Q! and annoying in that I thought I knew all the Easter Eggs Neil threw at us, and had never heard of that one!

This site has good Sandman annotations, and does not recognize Eric as the Black Spider.

The murder of Ben Williams inspired what hero to become a costumed vigilante?

(extra credit: who killed Ben Williams?)

Thanks CMK. Good site but the annotations didn't seem as exhaustive as they could have been for that book. Shame no mention of Black Spider - maybe they were just unaware? Would be good to hear what Gaiman has to say about it one day.

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As for Kent's question, random guess - the Crimson Avenger?

nope!

The Vigilante (another random guess)

nope! character in question came about long after CA and the original western Vigilante, but before more recent skimask Vigilantes.

Spider-Man?

Nemesis.

And the killer of Ben Williams was Nemesis's brother (whose name I can't recall). This is from the B&B stories, if I'm right.

Sounds like Cobalt Kid is pretty confident - but it would have been funny if it'd turned out to be Spider-Man, and Ben Williams had been Uncle Ben's alternate real name from some story or something

Cobie has it!

The B&B Nemesis run is an old fave of mine.

the bro was Craig Tresser, Tom (Nemesis)'s bro, who'd been brainwashed to assassinate his mentor. all 3 were government agents.

Nemesis is a character I love from his Suicide Squad days so I was delighted when I learned his early stories were in B&B and got to read them.

Along similar lines, which hero was inspired by the death of Earl Clifford?

Random guess - the Question.

No sir!

Um. Green Hornet?

Commencing random guesses of characters I've heard of but know almost nothing about:
Two-Gun Kid

Lone Ranger?

There's something about the name "Earl Clifford" that just makes me think "Western" genre

Carrying on Xben's theory of Western characters I have heard of but know nothing about.

Bat Lash?

No one has it yet so here is a clue:

The character is firmly in the superhero genre. So the western guesses, while good, are in the wrong direction.

Ragman?

Wildcat?

Sandman