Topic: The NON-LEGION comics trivia thread!!! Round two
Eryk Davis Ester
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What character received powers as part of a bet between Prince Highness and Prince Lowness as to whether an honest person would be corrupted by power?
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Eryk Davis Ester
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I don't own any comics with him in them, but I want to! (As far as I know, he only ever appeared in All-American Western).
I can confirm he didn't appear in either All-Star Western or Western Comics!
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When the X-Men became a reprint title / went on hiatus at the end of the Silver Age, they would sporadically guest star in various Marvel series (notably the Hulk and Marvel Team-Up). Of course, The Beast would have a solo feature in Amazing Adventures and join the Avengers.
What other member of the X-Men besides Beast had solo adventures in the interim between the Silver Age and the All-New, All-Different era? And because it's pretty easy to just guess the 6 possible answers: which legendary comic book creator randomly was the writer?
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Ps- for extreme bragging rights, bonus to anyone who knows which titles the stories appeared in.
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And actually that is quite correct! And I can tell you and Blacula felt they indeed very random but in doing so gave the two best guesses possible!
Of all people, legendary Jerry Siegel came to Marvel after his final falling out with DC at the close of the Silver Age. But his stay was brief in the fullest extent of the word: he wrote exactly 4 back-up stories. I wish I knew more about why he came to Marvel and then why he didn't stay (though by 1970 he was getting older).
Of all things, three of those back-ups were original stories featuring the Angel after X-Men was on hiatus. The first two appeared in Ka-Zar, which was a 3 issue reprint stories of Ka-Zar's first adventures in Daredevil, Spider-Man and X-Men. Weirdly enough, these reprints had original material back-ups first of Hercules and then of the Angel (pre-dating the Beast's solo stories, perhaps as Marvel thought the famous Golden Age name might draw in readers?). Even weirder, Ka-Zar actually was having new adventures in Astonishing Tales as a co-lead rather than the Ka-Zar comic.
The last Siegel Angel story ended up as a back-up in Marvel Tales, the long-running Spider-Man reprint series, where it may have been the only original material in the title's 20+ year history. The move was because Ka-Zar had only been in enough stories to justify 3 reprint issues.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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I knew Siegel had done work for other companies at the end of the sixties/early seventies, and I was thinking he'd done a bit of Marvel, but, beyond that, it was pretty much a guess!
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