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

Neither Kang nor Molecule Man.

Supreme Intelligence?

Ultron?

Ultron is the correct answer! Maximus the Mad affixed the head of Ultron-6 to the body of Omega, the ultimate Alpha Primitive and the artificial being now calling itself Ultron-7 attacked the wedding of Crystal and Quicksilver. Ultron's encephalo-ray, which hypnotized the assembled heroes into paralysis, awakened the comatose Franklin, who in turn used his ill-defined mental powers to deactivate the villain.

Sounds crazy, and also perfectly normal. Only in comics.

That's ...bizarre. I bet it even happened in one issue (versus a 6 issue trade)

Would you settle for two? The story in which Franklin is awakened by Ultron started in Avengers # 127 and concluded in Fantastic Four # 150.

(The story that led to Reed putting Franklin in a coma was in Fantastic Four # 140-141).

Bump Lardy

I'll post a question tonight or tomorrow.

Other than the Silver Surfer, there have been 11 Heralds of Galactus. There were also 6 heroes who fulfilled the role for the duration of one story or arc. Name those six.

We'll fill those in as we go. In one post, you can guess as few as one or as many as the remaining, unrevealed spots. I'll give clues, if needed, as we go.

(Honor system, please. No internet searches.)

When you say story or arc are you including "What If" tales? IF you are I always remember the one with Dazzler becoming a herald. Liked that one.

Yes. We're including that one.

1) Dazzler
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)

I think Spider-Man became a herald once, somewhere, somehow?

and Mister Fantastic sort-of became a herald, not empowered, but there was a What If where he led Galactus to uninhabited worlds (after he, the rest of the classic Four, Wasp and Alicia Masters were the only survivors of Earth...)

I think you may be remembering when he was Captain Universe?



I've decided to accept this answer in place of one on my list. It was from the Ultimate Universe and a character I've never heard of: Anti-Man. (I misread it as Ant-Man.)

BTW, I think Dazzler was kinda-sorta in real continuity a herald in Dazzler 11-12.

Yes. We're including that one.

1) Dazzler
2) Reed Richards
3)
4)
5)
6)

How are we defining "herald"? Is it just someone who helps Galactus in any way at all? Or someone who specifically finds him planets to eat? In Dazzler 11-12, Dazzler just helped Galactus retrieve Terrax from inside a black hole. It was only in a What If? reality that she was a finding-planets herald.

Okay, my source and memory were incorrect on that one. But I feel her starring role in a What If? story as a Herald justifies her inclusion in the list, even if it's out of continuity.

I've since been able to verify the rest of my list, except, perhaps, Ibby's Reed Richards guess. I will reduce the list to five and go from there.

Basically, everyone on the list has either been called "Herald" or worked under at least the pretense of finding Galactus a world to consume or both. Some were also given the Power Cosmic. Good enough?

1) Dazzler
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3)
4)
5)

Dr. Strange
Jean Grey
Scarlet Witch
Professor X

Other than the Silver Surfer, there have been 11 Heralds of Galactus. There were also five heroes who fulfilled the role for the duration of one story or arc. Name those five.

(Up to three guesses in subsequent posts.)

1) Dazzler
2) Doctor Strange
3)
4)
5)

Stephen Strange was a Herald in the storyline "Herald Supreme" last year in Doctor Strange Vol. 5, issues 12-16.


Incorrect: Jean Grey, Scarlet Witch, Professor X, Spider-Man, Reed Richards (unconfirmed)

Johnny Storm?

Other than the Silver Surfer, there have been 11 Heralds of Galactus. There were also five heroes who fulfilled the role for the duration of one story or arc. Name those five.

(Up to two guesses in subsequent posts.)

1) Dazzler
2) Doctor Strange
3) Johnny Storm
4)
5)

Johnny Storm was a Herald (as Invisible Boy, no less) in the storyline "Rising Storm" that appeared near the end of the Waid/Weiringo run in FF 520-523. Waid also wrote the "Herald Supreme" storyline, so he has re-used the basic idea.


Incorrect: Jean Grey, Scarlet Witch, Professor X, Spider-Man, Reed Richards (unconfirmed)

Yeah, that's the story I was remembering.

Let's see...Thor?

Other than the Silver Surfer, there have been 11 Heralds of Galactus. There were also five heroes who fulfilled the role for the duration of one story or arc. Name those five.

(Up to one guess in subsequent posts.)

1) Dazzler
2) Doctor Strange
3) Johnny Storm
4) Thor
5)

In the opening arc, not yet completed, of the current Thor series by Donnie Cates, Thor is imbued with the Power Cosmic and is the "Herald of Thunder".

Incorrect: Jean Grey, Scarlet Witch, Professor X, Spider-Man, Reed Richards (unconfirmed)

Interesting, I was thinking of him from earlier Thor-Galactus stories.

One more to guess...the Punisher? (And yes, I know that Galactus had used an unrelated robot with that name in his first appearance.) Frank Castle seems like such a down-to-Earth type of hero, but he's had some pretty far-out incarnations, maybe herald of Galactus was one such.

There has been a cosmic-powered Punisher from the future appearing recently but I don't remember him being Galactus Herald. I will be interested to hear if it is the correct answer.

Iron Man spent some time in space with the Guardians. Did he ever become a Herald?

Other than the Silver Surfer, there have been 11 Heralds of Galactus. There were also five heroes who fulfilled the role for the duration of one story or arc. Name those five.

(Up to one guess in subsequent posts.)

1) Dazzler
2) Doctor Strange
3) Johnny Storm
4) Thor
5)


Incorrect: Jean Grey, Scarlet Witch, Professor X, Spider-Man, Reed Richards (unconfirmed), Punisher, Iron Man