Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5

ooh nice one. I was also gonna guess Wanda next because of the nature of her powers!

I remember reading an old Avengers years ago where Ultron kidnapped Wanda to get rid of her first because she had been key to "destroying" him last time.

Oh no! Terra-Man has captured Superman and imprisoned him in a rock that is impervious to all his powers except for Super-Strength. Superman can only use his super-strength by thinking of a certain image which he cannot remember. What is the image and how has Terra-Man removed it from his mind?

An image of Lois Lane?

Terra-Man used some sort of memory-wiping machine?

It's the image of Laurel Kent, who Superboy fancied in the future. It was Superman who removed the memory using Amnesium due the creepyness of it.Terra Man wants to know what the memory is, so he can blackmail Superman into doing his bidding.

It was the image of his closest friend and ally, the other half of the World's Finest - Batman! And Terra Man removed it by using Red Kryptonite

No, no and no.

Looks like this one is a bit trickier.

Clue: the image is NOT of a human character.

It was Krypto! The doggy from his boyhood... who, when DC ignored him, went off to join the Interplanetary Canine Patrol and became much more heroic than any of Earth's human capes.

ooh nice choice!

I'll guess... Doomsday? was this after Superman died? The trauma caused Supes to forget it?

Mr. Mxyzptlk ... because his 5th dimensional impishness caused the loss of powers?

No, no and no.

This is a bit trickier than I imagined. If no classic Superman fans chime in soon I will post another.

Clue: the image thought of is the pet of a supporting character who appeared in a handful of Superman comics in the early Bronze Age (early 70s) written by Cary Bates and drawn by Curt Swan.

oooh, that's a bit of a blind spot for me. I know more about the 90s-era Superman cast (the one that developed before the Death of Superman).

Beppo?

Glop?

Still all no.

I will leave this one more day in case someone else who grew up on Bronze Age Superman chimes in. This was the heyday of Terra-Man, Vartox, Clark Kent as a newsreader at Morgan Edge's WGBS, the Sandman Superman stealing his powers, and Curt Swan in top form.

Further clue: the pet in question is never given a name and is a mammal but not a normally domesticated breed and is the pet of a young boy.

Is it a ... sheep?

Could it be that time Superman shared his powers with a young boy and his .... lynx?

Oops, I haven't guessed my random animal... was it a ? (and I'd love it to be a levitating dolphin) ?skunk?

Yay! Someone remembers! Absolutely correct.

In a previous story by Denny O'Neil an accident involving Ferlin Nyxly (a rare but sporadic recurring villain) and a young boy named Billy Anders who lives in Clark Kent's apartment building transfers Billy's mind into a Lynx. Billy is fine as long as he and the cat are kept close together. In a later story aliens zap Superman such that whenever he uses his Super-Strength he experiences an equal and opposite force against himself. Another alien helps him around this by transferring his Super-Strength to Billy, who can't use it but can store it. When Superman needs his strength he thinks of Billy's pet Lynx which briefly transfers his strength back to him to use and then returns it to Billy before the "boomerang" effect can strike Superman.

In this Terra-Man story by Cary Bates (who created the villain) TM telepathically notes Superman's use of the lynx image, tracks down Billy and kidnaps him and his lynx. He places the lynx in a telepathic shield which makes everyone forget about the lynx. Thus when he imprisons Superman in a hollow boulder made impervious to all his other powers, Superman can't remember the trigger image to regain his Super-Strength. However Billy figures it out and remembers his pet causing Superman to remember as well, and Superman breaks out, rescues Billy, and figures out a way to safely undo the transfer and restore them all to normal (which is a good thing for Billy because although he liked being Superman's temporary sidekick the Super-Strength was too much for his body and was making him unable to heal from the slightest injury).

Terra-Man (a villain I quite enjoyed) makes several more appearances but Billy only appears a handful more times before disappearing into the limbo of old unused Superman characters.

Myg, your turn.

Nicely remembered Andy. Good question Stile.

Yes, good question, stile. Makes me want to track down that story, it seems interesting. Will definitely be Googling Billy Anders! Nice going, Myg.

Here's an article on cbr all about Billy Anders if you don't have the comics. When Superman Shared His Strength With a Little Kid and His Pet Lynx

Thanks stile! I don't have the comics indeed Good read!

But now I'm curious, what happened to that nincompoop riding the motorcycle? He basically did a hit and run!

That's exactly what he did. He is one of many residents or visitors to 344 Clinton St (where Clark Kent has apartment 3-D) who only appeared once and were never seen again. There are a few who occasionally reappear (List of Residents at DC Wiki) but Jangles Jones the rock band drummer was not one of them either.

Myg's turn.

Interesting. That story reminds me of Captain Marvel Jr.'s origin as well.

ooh! Thanks for confirming. Now this makes me mad: not only at the character, but for the writers/editors to introduce a very strange situation (man with lynx rides motorcycle indoors and hits child), with no follow up! I would have expected Superman to use his x-ray vision or superhearing or whatever to arrest that guy - what he did was definitely a crime!