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

Nope!

Magog accidentally blasted someone, and was very unapologetic for it. This led Power Girl to (rather violently) kick him off the team.

Who did he blast?

It was someone in the Justice Society, but not

Hourman
Obsidian

Stargirl?

Also no, but the correct answer is female

Cyclone?

you got it!

Cyclone was coming up behind Magog to help. HE turned and blasted her. when Power Girl called him out on it, he lamely said "she came up on my blind side". and that is when Kara used violence...

i guessed Cyclone when I remembered that you have used her in a number of trivia games before. I guess you like her as a character Ibby?

Superman gave Lana Lang super-powers via a blood transfusion, and when Lois becomes jealous and despondent he gave them to Lois as well. The two women teamed up in super outfits to do super-hero stuff while Superman travelled to a distant galaxy. However Superman had a specific reason for giving them both powers which involved a deal to save the whole world. What was this deal and who was it with?

yes, you're right stile with my fairly limited comics reading, I tend to gravitate towards characters I know and like... wind powers also usually fascinate me.

a deal... hm...

the deal was to save the world without lifting a finger of his own?
and it was with... Lex Luthor?

No to both I am afraid.

was it a deal to prove that women could be just as competent as men?

deal was with... i dunno... Wonder Woman?

Ha! Interesting idea. But no, it wasn't Wonder Woman and was not about proving competency.

Hint you were closer with your first guess.

That he could leave Earth alone for a bit and it would be safe?

Deal with Brainiac?

Close enough. It was Brainiac and he did agree to leave Earth alone, in particular not to destroy it. But why?

I don't think you will ever guess (I certainly wouldn't have) so here is the explanation. In Superman's Girl-Friend Lois Lane #17, in only his second ever appearance, Brainiac in revenge for Superman stopping his plan to collect the bottled cities of Earth sought to put him in a no-win situation. Having contacted Superman and protected behind his force field where Superman agreed he couldn't touch him, Brainiac offered him a choice. Either Brainiac would destroy the Earth or ... on a particular day he would mentally force Superman's two loves Lois and Lana to go to a certain location where they would be killed, and on this day Superman had to promise to be in a distant galaxy where he couldn't save them and not have told anyone about it. Superman agreed to the deal but had outsmarted Brainiac by giving the two women temporary super-powers so that when they entered the explosive laden building they survived the explosion unscathed. Brainiac of course, being the noble and honourable being he was(!?), honoured the deal. as Superman says to him "You're a rogue and a scoundrel, Brainiac ... but at least you kept your word!"

Wasn't the Silver Age wonderful?

Your turn Ibby.

wow. the Silver Age is so... yeah, that is indeed some Silver Age stuff!

curious, how did Superman remove the powers after? Or did he intend for them to be temporary?

also: all this "and Lois got jealous" bit, when he WANTED her to have powers anyway!

ok, next Q:

there have been a few DC/Marvel crossovers before. In one, Robin (Tim Drake) developed a romance with which Marvel heroine?

The powers were temporary and faded just after the attack.


Hmm. Sounds vaguely familiar. I guess someone youngish. Stargirl?

Nope. Was a Marvel heroine, and indeed youngish

Thanks for filling in the gaps re that last story ah the silver age

Oops, yep mixed universes.

Kitty Pryde?

Nope

Jubilee?

I bet that's it Ann.

Annfie has it, it was Jubilee! Both Jubilee and Tim were shown very distraught at the end of that DC/Marvel (also called Marvel/DC, to give both companies equal billing) series

A lucky guess on my part.

New Q soon.

Let's take a trip back to the 80s and the genre-oriented sector of the indie scene...specifically First Comics and their acid-noir series Grimjack.

What was the nationality of Spook, the femme fatale whom Grimjack met while time-traveling in the Old West?

Afraid I never read or even heard of Grimjack but I will have a guess - Mexican?

Not Mexican.

British?