Saturday Solutions - Mostly

Here's the solutions to yesterdays' puzzles, sketchy though they may be. As we can see, it was considerably harder to lay these things out using a type writer. I remember great frustration from those days.

On to the "Tricky Quiz"...

Why is this quiz tricky? Well, see...  this quiz ran in Howard Siegel's zine, Comic Collector's Comments, in issue #85 of Rocket's Blast Comic Collector, with the answers scheduled for #86. But things happen, and Siegel missed the deadline for #86, and in the  frenzy that followed, he seemed to have forgotten the quiz answers when his zine appeared in #87. He probably followed up with the answers in #88, but i don't have that issue.  And so, we have a quiz without answers available.

But, surely, that can't stop us, right?

Well, not for the most part...

My Answers:

1. Bullet Girl

2. Walt Wallet

3. Spark Plug

4. The colours of his uniform

5. Steamboat

6. ???  I think maybe this is a trick question?
I have fewer than a dozen issues of Planet Comics, but none of them has a letters column.

EDIT: Ah-Ha! Finally found the letters column in #50. It was called The Visigraph.
It appears to be significant for possibly being the first letters column in comics? This is the impression gathered from comments in the letters appearing therein.

7. the Monster Society Of Evil

8. neither's face was ever shown

9. Pretzelburg

10. ???   This one seems a bit too vague to me without some sort of limiting context. It's not hard to list at least a dozen commonalities.

11. Jigsaw, Man Of A Thousand Parts

12. ??? No Damn Clue.  Fortunately, TC came through for us on this one in the comments:
"J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director.
In his book The Great Comic Book Heroes, Feiffer said that a lot of WWII comic book stories ended with the hero being thanked or congratulated by FDR or Hoover, "the president and vice president of the US, as far as comics were concerned.""  Thanks, TC!

Anybody got a copy of Jerry Bail's Collector's Guide to see what he's got to say about questions 6 & 10?  That was the authoritative source guide for these quizzes.

puzzles from Rocket's Blast Comic Collector #s 84, 85 & 91 (1971, 1972)