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Really? I'll have to dig those out and take a fresh look at them. I only remember Starlin doing that hunt for Ultra Boy story.

...and I'll have to dig out LW#4 sometime today too - always good to have an excuse to reread LSH stuff (not that anybody needs an excuse or anything like that)

Wahoo! Now you get to ask a question.

In his "Legion Companion" interview, Jim Stalin said of the "Hunt for Ultra Boy story",

"I can't actually remember if we did one story involving that or if it was a two issue thing, 'cause I did a giant thing for them later on, and that go split up into [two issues--SLSH #250/1]. It was supposed to be one giant issue and it got split up. There were a lot of other problems with it [he didn't like how Dave Hunt finished his layouts and he didn't like the fact that it took a year for the issues to be published], [so] I asked my name to be taken off it, and used a pen name..., 'Steve Apollo.'"

Later Stalin adds, "And out of that sixty-four pages, I think they used forty-eight or something like that. So not only was the artwork done by somebody who wasn't prepared to have to deal with what I had left him, the story was pretty truncated. so I wasn't too happy about the second part of it, and, as a result, never did come back to do anything on [Legion]."

Okay, here's my question:

I'm a huge Boston Red Sox fan. For my bachelor party in August 1999, 3 friends and I drove to Fenway Park and got to watch a Red Sox-Angels game in some right field seats. Thankfully, the Red Sox came from behind that day and won the game. Who was the Red Sox's starting pitcher that day?

Pedro Martinez
Bret Saberhagan
Tim Wakefield
Mark Portugal
Derek Lowe
Ramon Martinez
Rich Garces
Curt Schilling
Kent Mercker
Tomo Ohka

Oh. That's explains a lot of the problems I had with it. I loved Starlin's work on the Capt. Marvel and Warlock series and had high hopes when I bought that comic. >le sigh<

So there are a few pages of Starlin art for that story that were never published?
God, I'd love to see those.

I'm going to guess Curt Schilling.

Bret Saberhagen?

You silly, Schilling was still pitching for the Phillies in 1999.

Saberhagen isn't the correct answer either.

2 choices down, 8 more available.

It's baseball, totally out of my league.
Was it Joe Namath?

Ramon Martinez!

Total Guess: Tim Wakefield

I think it was Wakefield but there was another pitcher credited with starting that day too wasn't there? Steve Sparks?

Tim Wakefield IS the correct answer, and even though it was a total guess on Quis's part, I'm glad a Legion Worlder from Boston got it correct.

Steve Sparks was a pitcher for the Angels in 1999. Wow! Good memory, LL! I'm pretty sure Sparks did NOT start for the Angels that day because I would have remembered a match-up between two knuckleballers.

What's interesting is that I went to Fenway Park one other time: July 2002 when the Red Sox faced the Oakland A's. The Red Sox starting pitcher that night?

Tim Wakefield.

Alas, that night he got hammered. Frank Castillo relieved him in the 5th and graciously allowed the A's to score some more runs, and the Red Sox lost like 10-2.

Quis, you're up!

Is it legal for Long Islanders to root for Boston? This sounds mighty suspicious, Keith.

Practically all my relatives grew up in Boston. They transformed/corrupted me into a Red Sox fan by the early 1980s, which gave me enough time to become a die-hard fan and watch my beloved Sox choke against the Mets in '86.

Actually, I admire Sox fans. It must take a lot of dedication to watch them time-and-time-again come oh-so-close, but never quite to the top.

It's not dedication; it's masochism.

Oops my question now.

I forget all the questions I asked already.

OK I asked about my nieces. Now which of these is not one of my nephews?

A) Dan
B) Andy
C) Eric
D) Jim
E) Alex
F) David

B) Andy?

Nope. Andy is my nephew and just got married.

The answer is Jim because no one is called "Jim" anymore. It's James or J.T. or J.R. or Jimmy or Jimbo. But "Jim," puh-lease.

Well when he was younger it was Jimmy. His maternal grandmother wanted to call him "Jamie" when he was a baby. But I have noticed that my Brother and Sister-in-law refer to him as Jim now. I assume that it was his choice. I remember when I insisted on being called "Robert" and not "Robbie".

I'll go E) aLEX

Nope. Alex is actually my niece's son. So that makes him a great nephew and me a great uncle.

well how about Eric then?

"Eric the Half-a-Bee ..."

My guess is Dan.