Here are the answers to yesterday's puzzles, according to the book:
As the Mindbender astutely noted yesterday, according to these folks, Aphrodite's power was scoring on the first date?
Okay - how many of you are going to go look for the adventures of "the boy with the most comic books in America"?!
Why not call him Green Lamp then?
Kind of a cheat-y answer, huh?
...and we'll skip right past the arbitrary nature of the different answers to Superman and Captain Marvel, eh?
As the Mindbender astutely noted yesterday, according to these folks, Aphrodite's power was scoring on the first date?
Okay - how many of you are going to go look for the adventures of "the boy with the most comic books in America"?!
Why not call him Green Lamp then?
Kind of a cheat-y answer, huh?
...and we'll skip right past the arbitrary nature of the different answers to Superman and Captain Marvel, eh?
Ok, Hawkgirl was only referred to as "Hawkwoman" in one Golden Age appearance, and then not until the late 1970s/early 80s after that, well after the publication of this puzzle book. Susan Kent was never called Bulletwoman to my memory, only Bulletgirl. While Namor was established as being from Atlantis in the Silver Age, Originally, he was merely the prince of an undersea kingdom of submariners somewhere off the coast of Antarctica. I had been puzzled by what they were going for with the Human Torch question, since the art & presence of Toro precluded the obvious answer of Johnny Storm, but the short-lived alter-ego "Jim Hammond" had been pretty much forgotten until Roy Thomas brought it back in the Invaders, almost 10 years after this book came out. And what, exactly, are "hand bracelets"? WW's bracelets of submission are always worn on her wrists, not her hands. I guess that's what happens when you're as swift as Aphrodite. Oh, and Blackhawk is at least sometimes Polish, or at least Polish-American, as he was the only one of his family to survive the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939.
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Thanks, MB - I was hoping you'd remember his 'human' name without me having to go hunting for it. Blackhawk being Polish and the -Woman answers instead of -Girl... I wonder if those were just base ignorance, or intentional shifts from being published in the mid-60s during the rise of the Women's Lib movement?
ReplyDeleteAnyway - you wrote the first paragraph of the upcoming Supersnipe post for me with those corrections.
So why use a book with such dubious answers?
SUPERSNIPE!
Oh, sure - the first story ends with a cop promising to give our hero a proper beating with his hand (shut up) - but this is the sort of forgotten Oddity that gives me tingles.
(Yeah - shut up again)
Hal Jordan's (Silver Age Green Lantern) power ring would not work against anything that was yellow. Alan Scott's (Golden Age GL) ring was powerless against anything made of wood.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall a 1960s team-up where they confused the villains by swapping rings.
But I guess you could have clobbered either of them with a wooden baseball bat painted yellow.
Yeah, Sportsmaster with a yellow bat and a box of yellow bocce balls - deadliest thing they've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing about how often the answers from this book were - let's say "iffy" - is that the co-author, Malcom Whyte, went on to found the Comic Art Museum in San Francisco.
Oops - I mean the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. I really should try to get the name right before hitting the publish button.
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