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

The tumour is Tony Stark! Trapped in a Life Model Decoy!

Not Dr Doom.
Not the Supreme Intelligence.
Great idea but no.

Some wonderful ideas here. The cause is actually something that has become somewhat topical in recent years, and not just in the comics. Oh and it's not really a brain tumour (if the sentient bit didn't give it away).

was it some kind of virus?

Not a virus

Was it created by Gamma radiation and is therefore some sort of Hulk in Tony’s head?

Aliens from the moon?

Was it his conjoined twin that he didn't kill off properly in the womb?

Not a sort of Hulk
Not Aliens from the Moon
Not a twin

Big Clue: Think about the what might be the approx size of a brain tumour and if anything in the Marvel Universe fits that.

Was Ant-Man or the Wasp in his head?

Howard the duck enters stage left...

I've heard of having someone on your mind, but this is riduckulous....

... and exits stage right.

ooh wait have we had a cosmic cube yet? Was it a cosmic cube?

An Infinity Gem?

When stile said "The cause is actually something that has become somewhat topical in recent years, and not just in the comics." I thought he meant in a mainstream news sort of way. Not just in another Marvel medium. That's why I live in the Tangent universe I guess.

I was also thinking "real life", hence my first guess was a virus Coronavirus, eek!

Yes! It was an infinity gem. Not sure which one (they didn't get individualised so much in Ultimate Universe) but Pietro sliced open Tony's head to find it and Maker performed brain surgery to remove it, while keeping tony alive and conscious - mostly so he could boast I think, since as soon as he was finished extracting and boasting he snipped the appropriate thing killing Tony. (Tony survived but that's another story.)

Some great ideas from all of you with this one. Great fun. Your turn Ibby.

wow,that sounds like quite a story...

credits to your clue, stile. and also to raz for guessing Cosmic Cube... and it made me remember the Infinity Gems from the MCU!

ok let's see...

Who once was given a dose of Miraclo, saving their life and causing them to blow a hole in a villain?

Hooty the owl?

you got it!

I thought that you might have been referring to the Stalker story. I loved the structure of it, and I love James Robinson's handle on the breadth of DC history, though it's never nice to see a heroic character get turned into a villain.

There were two long-running DC team-up books that ended in the early-to-mid 1980s. Brave & Bold, featuring Batman and a guest (or team of guests), and DC Comics Presents featuring Superman and a guest (or team). Who was the guest in the last issue of each of these series?

was it the same guest for both? Barry Allen?

No it was not. The two books' cancellations weren't connected. They didn't end at the same time - Brave and Bold ended in 1983, when it was replaced in the monthly roster by Batman and the Outsiders, while DC Comics Presents continued until right before Man of Steel rebooted the Superman books in 1986.

I'm still reading a fair number of '80s comics. So all I have to do is close my eyes and... picture the final issue of World's Finest...bah!



In one of the Outsiders TPBs, it was said that four Bat-books were a requirement for a foreign licensing deal. When B&B was slated to go, BatO became the repalcement. The replacement would have been a Bat-book of some sort.

B&B was before my time reading DC, and before the time where I could pick them up as recent-ish issues from older newsstands.

DC Comics Presents, like Worlds Finest was never towards the top of my pile. There was a mix in quality in the scripts/ concepts/ I think my first DC Presents issue had the Forgotten Villains/ Heroes. There was no Crisis crossover on the cover, even though it does lead into it. I had no idea. That had Swan art, when I was probably thinking it looked a little dated inside, others had Aparo and Kirby art, when I wasn;t that aprreciative of it. I'd pick up the odd issue of DC Presents, if that's what was left.

The Crisis crossovers seemed a bit meh and fuill of hasty foreshadowing. My first guess for this was going to be the Post Crisis issue, where Harbinger, Quark and Pariah are involved. Great Perez cover. Meh apart from that. But I'd have recalled that as the last issue. So, I'm having to have a think. I don;t think this is right, but I'm going to go with Hawkman in a Shadow War follow up crossover.

As for B&B, i imagine it was something fitting for the book to go out on. So, was it someone like Catwoman?

The final issue of DC Comics Presents did not guest star Hawkman or anything related to the Shadow War story.

You are correct that the last B&B was a fitting final guest star, but not Catwoman.

DC Comics Presents: DC would have had some inventory around. There was time to have things like Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? As DC Presents had a popular Whatever happened to in-series, that would have been a good fit for this title. upergirl would have been well before the post crisis issue, so I'll go for something else in-keeping and say Jimmy Olsen.

B&B: Was it The Joker?

B&B: was it Superman?

DC Comics Presents: Aquaman?