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

The Spider Mobile?

Nope.

Money?

It was worth money, and he eventually sold it for money, but it wasn't money itself.

Hint: It was something that was originally thrown in the trash (and was at that time worthless), but at the time Spider-Man took it, it was worth quite a bit.

A tank. Take that Green Goblin!

Nope. (And at the time, the Green Goblin was believed dead and no others were using the name. Hobgoblin was a big presence, and the only goblin, in the Spider-Man books of the era.)

Old coin?

Nope.

Old stamp?

Not that either.

Allow me to say...its value increased not due to antiquity, but because it was transformed.

A lump of coal?

Not coal (that I assume you think turned into diamond).

A film or negative that became valuable because it captured a moment whose significance was not realised at the time?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of... darn...

hm, transformed, transformed...

some kind of plant?

OK, it's clear that we do not have a lot of mid-80's Marvel readers here.

It happened in Secret Wars II. The Beyonder came to Earth, seeking to understand humanity, and he got some insight about it from Luke Cage. Unfortunately, he was still naive, so...caused a disaster of sorts....and Spider-Man helped save lives in the aftermath of that disaster. He saw the government express its gratitude to another party who was helping in said aftermath, and decided he deserved something too, and took it.

Any bells? Bueller?...Bueller? Anyone?

Thanks for giving the context. Never read Secret Wars II, alas....

Some kind of computer?

Nope.

If no one gets it by EOD, I'll think of a new question.

Never read Secret Wars II? Good decision.

Thanks, I will not look it up then

Maybe...

a statue?

Not a statue.

I have read a couple of issues. I seem to remember thinking the first issue was a lot better than the first secret wars.

Did Peter get some gold from the building that the Beyonder transformed into gold. Once trasnformed, the building collapsed.

Yes! There was one golden item, but if no one can say before midnight what it was, the next question is yours.

I actually liked the way it began, it seemed like what you would expect of an alien being with no idea what drives human beings. Luke explained to him very clearly how humans need to exchange money for things, and (inaccurately, for the 1980's) that cash represents gold, whereupon the Beyonder "paid him for his services" (almost certainly Luke didn't get a cent of it) by turning an office building and all of its contents into gold. Also, who couldn't love Spider-Man potty training the Beyonder?

But after issue 3 or so it went completely off the rails. I don't know if Shooter actually planned most of that mess or if he went into the series with only a premise, a beginning and an end, but only vague ideas of what should come in the middle which he made up on the fly. And I remember feeling that issue # 7, in which Mephisto gathers nearly every super-villain that ever appeared in a Marvel comic to attack the Beyonder, was nothing but a blatant rip-off of the Villain War, issues 9 and 10 of Crisis on Infinite Earths.

I also wasn't crazy about the Al Milgrom-Steve Leialoha art. They're decent workhorses for a regular series, but when doing a mega-crossover (especially before they became obligatory annual events), a company should enlist its best.

Potty training the Beyonder...? Whoa!

A golden item...

Was it some kind of device/invention?

Well, it wasn't an item that occurs in nature, so I guess by definition it was an invention, but it wasn't mechanical or electronic.

A... model building?

Nope.