Friday Fun & Games #001

I decided that some regular features will likely help build & maintain my dedication to posting on some sort of regular basis, and not sure i'm cut out for the Friday Night Fights circuit. What to do... what to do?

Well, you probably figured out before this point that Friday Fun & Games is the answer for now. Old bits of silliness from ancient* comics & magazines. There's lots of things to pull from - crosswords, word searches, mazes (they LOVED mazes), jumbles, anacrostics, silly games, and things with no names. Puzzles & Games ran in FOOM, in Amazing World Of DC Comics, in genre magazines and specialty publications of all sorts. The original artwork for today's logo comes from the cover of Marvel Superhero Puzzles And Games from General Mills (Free when you buy any two of Trix, Lucky Charms, Boo Berry, Count Chocula, Franken Berry, or Cocoa Puffs)
Even Marvel got into the game, publishing their own Fun & Games Magazine back in '79 that ran for at least a year, according to my stacks. I know there's lots of material, so time to start mining.

Today's will be real simple since the notion just bloomed and not a lot of prep time if i want to keep the name. A lot of those old puzzles are going to need some serious cleaning. Especially since i was an egotistical little bastard and tended to do puzzles with a ball point pen. We're going to go with a F.O.O.M. for our first, in keeping with yesterday's cover. There's a nice Hulk crossword puzzle in #1 that's going to need major cleaning, so we'll jump to FOOM #3 (1973) and pull a bit silly little monitor destroying Fill-In Puzzle:

For those of you who don't wish to take a marker to your monitors, another new feature is in the offing:
Saturday Solutions!



*(In an age of internet time scales, ancient becomes a rather fluid term. I'm splashing here.)